The humble cassette tape has long seemed destined for a dignified death, taking its place beside the rotary dial telephone, the floppy disk and cathode-ray tube televisions in the cobwebbed corners of museums or junk shops. Yet almost 60 years after it was first launched by Philips, the Dutch electronics company, the tape today doggedly endures, finding new fans in an era of digital overload and riding in the slipstream of the so-called vinyl revival.
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Cassette tape revival turns old trash into new treasure
Musicians and fans like its affordability and physical qualities in a digital world
The resurgence of vinyl records over the past decade has been well-documented. Now the compact cassette, for all its imperfections, has been placed in the revivalist ranks. (Getty Images)
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