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In the late 1970s, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka wanted a way to listen to music on long flights without carrying bulky tape recorders. He asked engineers to design a small, lightweight, portable cassette player with headphones.

Sony’s engineers modified an existing portable recorder (the Sony Pressman) by removing the recording function, adding stereo playback, and making it more compact. The result was the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, released in 1979 in Japan.

At first, many doubted people would buy a music player that couldn’t even record. But the Walkman became a massive success, changing how the world listened to music and inspiring future devices like the Discman, iPod, and smartphones.

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