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Original name of the Sony Walkman (infosec.pub)

submitted 23 hours ago by lime@feddit.nu to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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Growing up, portable cassette players were always called "freestyles" here. I never knew it was a marketing thing, or that some other countries also objected to the naming.

this is "original research", which means i dicked around on the internet archive for half an hour. it may be wrong.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty bold to name it Greenland in Greenland. Sony just out here going "Hey Greenland, buy a Sony Greenland to play your tapes on."

[–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 19 hours ago

...that might have been me

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 3 points 18 hours ago

There are only 50,000 people there, if they had to hire someone to think of a better name it would have become unaffordable for the average greenlander.