In their day, all of these were incredible can’t live without technologies that changed the world, but today not so much.

This week Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan and I take a nostalgic look back at the typewriter, the discman, cassette tapes, VHS, floppy disks, pagers, portable TV”s and other obsolete technologies, chat about why they were big, why they’re no no longer around and why some of them are making nostalgic comebacks.

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