Cassettes were introduced by Dutch Philips in 1963. They were designed for executive dictations, not to mention journalists and other professions.

In the eighties, the imperial decade of the cassette, the hardware was implemented that would guarantee its triumph. Players became miniaturized (the Walkman!) and increased in power (the boombox), colloquially known as a parrot. The cheapening of blank cassettes facilitated cultural practices not imagined by Dutch engineers.. The mixtapes expressed feelings that one was not able to vocalize, apart from a certain swagger: “Look at the depth of my record collection, the subtlety of sequencing, my exquisite taste in music"