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e-book readers - 1990 edition (Patreon)

Published:

2018-06-28 09:20:27

Edited:

2018-06-29 18:16:18

Imported:

2021-02

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I'd expect that quite a few people here will remember these Sony e-readers, but I've noticed that they rarely get a mention online. As a result it's likely there's a generation out there who won't be aware that seventeen years before the Kindle, there was an earlier attempt to sell e-book readers to the general public. The Kindle might have got it right - but Sony got their first, and showed them how not to do it.

I assembled everything for this video a couple of years back. A few of the items you'll see were the fruits of my first attempt at buying things from a Japanese auction site. However this video kept getting pushed to the back of my to-do list as there's quite a lot to cover in it, so I knew it would take longer than a week to put together. During a recent tidy-up I kept falling over the box containing all this stuff, and decided it was finally time to tackle it.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying the extra floor space.

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e-books in the '90s with Sony's Data Discman

Long before the Kindle made e-readers popular, back in 1990 Sony launched their first consumer e-book reader, the DD-1. ---------------SUBSCRIBE------------------ http://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan?sub_confirmation=1 -------------Merchandise----------------- https://teespring.com/stores/techmoan-merch -------------SUPPORT--------------- This channel can be supported through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/techmoan Patrons usually have early access to videos ----------Outro Music----------- Over Time - Vibe Tracks https://youtu.be/VSSswVZSgJw ------Outro Sound Effect------ ThatSFXGuy - https://youtu.be/5M3-ZV5-QDM -------THANKS TO ------- Jerobeam Fenderson for the intro animation: http://oscilloscopemusic.com/