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ANOTHER era’s come to an end with the news that the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is dumping the word “cassette” from its pages because it’s “obsolete” to make way for amazingly exciting and incredibly important new words like “sexting”, “OMG”, “woot”, “LOLZ” and “retweet”. The writing’s been on the wall for years, though — British electronics store Currys announced back in 2007 that it was stopping selling cassettes after sales fell from 8.3 million in 1989 to 100,000 in 2006.
Yet another part of my life has been consigned to the dustbin of history. I have fond memories of cassettes — I […]