Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3)

Record stores were already mostly taken over by cassettes and then CDs by the time I was in the position to buy music (early teens). So I bought my first cassette around… 1985?1986? Around there. And I mostly just taped music off the radio like everyone else, or duped cassettes thanks to that friend that had a dual cassette boombox.

I bought my first CD player (a discman) in 1993 or 1994.

So records were fundamentally an obsolete tech before I got into music. Not that they didn’t linger, have some space on shelves, or haven’t made a comeback of sorts, but they were things my parents had and almost never took the time to listen too.


An important category missing from the typos is “Doper’s are getting wrecked by autocorrect/autocomplete”. If I’m doing something from my phone or tablet, or the auto-spelling feature in my browser, it’ll sometimes pick a word adjacent to the one I want, or in a different tense, or similar. And since it’s properly spelled even if it’s the wrong word, it doesn’t register unless I’m doing a good proofread. Which I normally do, but laziness and IRL issues are a thing too!