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Will T. Mari

Baton Rouge
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PNW media historian; dancing/hiking/journalism: au of 'American Newsroom, 'A Short History’ and ‘Newsrooms & the Disruption of the Internet’ RT≠opinion Go Navy!
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The Return of the Cassette Tape? How Analog Music Is Making a Comeback

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By Will T. Mari
| Saturday Evening Post Magazine
Vinyl records have been enjoying an extended renaissance in recent years. Record-store owners say they’re selling as much as they did more than 40 years ago, with 41 million records accounting for more than a $1 billion in sales in 2022 alone. But it’s not just vinyl that’s become popular again. The humble cassette tape is having a renaissance of its own. The Return of the Cassette Tape Sales of cassettes are up more than 440 percent over the past decade.
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The Challenge of Selling the First Personal Computers

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By Will T. Mari
| Saturday Evening Post Magazine
Before most people had a computer at home, they encountered them in the office, at schools and universities, or in the military or government. Computers were for work, at work. So, selling people on the extravagant idea of a computer for themselves was challenging. First of all, they were expensive; in the early 1980s, a computer could easily cost $4,000 or more in today’s money for a complete system.
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The Nostalgia for Lost Computer Sounds of the 1990s And 2000s

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By Will T. Mari
| Saturday Evening Post Magazine
If you used a computer in the 1990s or 2000s, you probably remember how they sounded. These noises ran the gamut from the scratchy whirs and beeps of dial-up internet, to the trademarked start-up sound of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, the happy dings of MSN Messenger, or even the pffts and zaps of a dot-matrix printer. Computing remains a sonic experience, with people responding with joy or dread, depending on which sound issues from their device. People seem to be , at a basic level.
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