@Annie September 3, 1997 – I was back in class after the Labor Day holiday in my first year of college. I was still saving up to buy a bicycle so I had to leave my dorm early to walk to my classes across campus; my portable CD player held like a pizza box the whole way because it was too old to have much skip protection.
@Annie I had to share since you just happened to pick a date I remembered. 🙂 I went through a couple of portable CD players that year, each somehow cheaper but with longer skip protection. It helped that bigass pants were in style so I could fit them into my massive pockets. In September of the following year, I replaced the CD players with the very first portable mp3 player.
@gregmoore Technology influencing fashion: Bigass pants popularity driven by the need to have somewhere to stick that book-size music player. What a time to be alive
