When I was a kid... "Mix Tapes"

This falls under the old "when I was a kid..." category. Well, when I was in high school and college, we would make a thing called "Tapes". In order to save the wear-and-tear on a thing we called "Records", we would record music onto these tapes. If we wanted to get crazy, we'd only take the songs we really liked off of these different "Albums" and combine them all on one tape. We'd call these "Mix Tapes"

Note: For all of you kids under 30, that is where the term "Mix Tape" came from.

Then you'd give your "Mix Tape" goofy names and share them with your friends or play them at gatherings known as "Keggers". You'd play them in a device known as a "Tape Deck" that you would hook up to a "Receiver" that was hooked to these gargantuan pieces of wood & felt known as "Speakers".

I listened to a couple of these "Mix Tapes" and had forgotten about that horrifying ever-present noise known at "Tape Hiss". And heaven forbid you ever left one sitting in the front seat of your car during the summer under the magnifying glass known as a "Wind Shield".

Next week on 'When I was a kid...' An explanation of the difference between the numbers 33, 45, and 78.