The CD player debuted in Japan
Think about that for a second. The CD player was rendered obsolete by the iPod and iPhone technologies over a decade ago. Yet it wasn’t even a thing in the U.S. back in 1982. People considered it radical and groundbreaking not long after it swept Japan. Even then it wouldn’t even become mainstream until the early-to-mid 1990s. Nowadays anybody who still uses a CD player is considered old or totally out of touch with reality.
