How Listening to Music has Changed

The Phonograph

Jan 1, 1877

American inventor Thomas Edison was the first person to invent a device to record and play music on

Computer

Sep 6, 1946

computers are one of the first things you could type on

Cassette Tapes

Aug 30, 1962

widely used to record and listen to music

personal cassette player

Jan 1, 1979

was incredibly popular when it first came out

Mini Disk players

Jan 1, 1992

It was the first time you could listen to songs the way you wanted to hear them

The iPod

Oct 23, 2001

It was the first listening device where you could upload songs digitally, storing 100's in one go.

Iphone

Jun 29, 2007

the Iphone was kinda like the ipod but you could call and listen to music

The iPod touch

Oct 23, 2007

first music device to have Wi-Fi so users could connect to the iTunes Store and download tunes and listen to them straight away.

Tablet

May 30, 2013

[the tablet is like a big phone] (http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-visual-proof-of-just-how-badly-microsoft-blew-it-with-tablets-2013-50

Touch Screen Computer

Apr 4, 2014

[American inventor Dr. G. Samuel Hurst developed resistive touchscreens almost accidentally.] (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/from-touch-displays-to-the-surface-a-brief-history-of-touchscreen-technology/0