On this week's on the media, how the cassette tape brought down governments,

collapsed time and space, and remade how we share information.

All of the early computers, certainly this time of the Atlantic.

Even the apples used cassettes.

The idea that you could have your own compilation that you made,

and you could have songs in any order you wanted,

it's like a sort of a superpower this technology was giving you.

It took about six days to spread across the whole country.

There's a term for it's called sneaker nut.

People in sneakers running around in distributing cassettes.

They duplicated it thousands and thousands and thousands of times.

When a homani called for strikes on these tapes, they happened.

Well get your tape record as I know you take, stand by for blasting because here it comes.

Three, two, one.

The outsized influence of a little piece of plastic after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brick Gladstone.

Those of you of a certain age and disposition, maybe right now sitting on the floor of your

childhood bedroom or crouched in the family attic or going through boxes of junk in your

parents' basement. I mean if not Thanksgiving weekend, then when?

And if you are doing that, have you come across any cassette tapes?

You know, dusty little plastic cases with unspooled tape in a giant brown tangle?

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