Interest in the 1980s and 1990s appears to be growing, as one staple of the period is seemingly making a comeback: the cassette tape. Artists like Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift seem to be ...

It wasn't always this way. Back in the 1980s, there was thing called the video cassette recorder or VCR. Players had video tapes that were sold on television to showcase their highlights.

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...