It’s a cycle
I can’t remember when I traded pirating music for my zune/iTouch for Spotify, but I know back in 2008 we were still using MP3 players. We were still in relatively early years with MP3 players, too. In 2010 I was still using my jailbroke iTouch 3, so we were still in the MP3 era until at least 2010. People also joked back then about vinyl snobs who made “audiophile” part of their personality. Records were cool and record shops were able to stay in business. Cassette sales were down on the other hand, because we were still getting over the trauma of them getting jammed and the excitement of having high quality digital music.
OP must be very young and just looked up what year things came out, not what year things were used. Weren’t DVDs invented in the 80s?
CDs came out in the 80’s (1983, like the meme), DVDs hit ten years later in the mid-90’s.
I could have sworn that there was some blockbuster 90s media invention that was first created like a decade before it was commonly used.
EDIT: Actually Bluetooth is probably what you’re looking for. Invented in 1994, but not really widely used until the last 15 years or so. I would assume mostly because audio quality was so shit for so long. Further, Bluetooth uses Frequency-hopping Spread Spectrum, which was actually developed in World War II.
I always considered cell phones (now just "phones) to be one of those things. In the 1980’s they had massive honking mobile phones, and in the 90’s fancier people had “car phones,” but actual common cell phone use didn’t really take off until the 2000’s in the USA and really only exploded in 2007, post-iPhone.
I had a land-line until like 2005.
It’s also interesting to note that the mobile-phone happened quicker in Japan. They had car-phones and a 1G network in 1979 and their first mobile handset came out in 1985, two years after Motorola. Also, texting was booming in Japan by the late 90’s/early 2000’s while Americans had barely just started, and were often using phone plans that only allowed for a limited number of texts. Texting adoption in the US was slow for a long time due to this.
