You know how it is

Vinyl was already cool again way before 2008.

Also, 2008 was the era of loading up iPods and the like. Spotify as a phenomenon is much more recent.

Also, USB?

Now that I think about it, just about everything in this meme is wrong...

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 mean, shit, I had an MP3 player in 1999. Yeah it only had 32 MB, but at 64kpbs, I coud store a whole album on there.
Where are the mp3 players?
There was a brief period where sticking a thumb drive into the pioneer stereo was slick AF

Cd's was not really a thing in 83.

Source: Im old.

You’re right. This post appears to be closer to when the tech was invented vs when they became mainstream. CDs were invented in 1982 but usage really didn’t take off until adoption in the 90s.
- Back in the days when the slightest breeze blown in the general direction of the CD player would cause it to skip.
I don't think cassette tapes were common in 63 either. They were using 8 track cassettes commonly before that.
CDs were more like 1992. I was around 5-6 then and distinctly remember getting Vanilla Ice's CD.
Nothing really makes sense here.
Cassettes weren't big until the eighties and cd's were nineties. USB? Sure, maybe. Spotify didn't become available for the US until 2011 (I waited patiently for that). And vinyl has definitely been coming back for quite some time now.
- Usb got big in like mid-00s.
  We were still using CD players till 2005. I remember somewhere in '04 or '05 when 128mb mp3 players went rampant.
And vinyl has been hot again for decades. Especially when it was the only medium for DJ’ing - before digital turntables became a thing. Major cities have been littered with hipster vinyl shops for like 20 years.

Lol some clueless zoomer made this

OK boomer

Flash drive? More like a iPod.

Zune or bust
- Microsoft, Nov 2006: “we finally launched an iPod competitor” Apple, Jan 2007: “standalone MP3 players are the past, behold the first multitouch smart phone” Microsoft: “the Zune comes in brown”
- Zune was the shit. Being able to share music wirelessly to those around you was so cool
I had that Creative Zen, thing was thick
- I had the Creative Zen Nano lol. It acted like a USB flash drive too if you needed it to.
I used to own a flash drive that's also a mp3 player, it's pretty neat
of you go with ipod i guess you would put wurlizter and boombox

One genuine point owed to retro hipster music formats though: you can't DRM them.

I'm sure you could come up with a way of recording binary code on the vinyl that could only be played back as music with the proper encryption key.
- INB4 they start encoding it as dialup modem sounds.

I am pretty sure this meme was made wrong on purpose for algorithm reasons by someone trying to drive more traffic to their page. Nothing like baiting people into correcting you in order to increase engagement.

Pssht we're all about Edison cylinders now

Vinyl never actually stopped being the coolest, its a issue of affordability and convince, you cant put a Vinyl player in your car or carry it around all day...

can't you?

This is so wrong that I am offended.

Where's the mini disc???

We are still in the era of Spotify?

What are you using?
- Spotify and trying out Apple Music.
Somehow for the majority of people yes. Despite them still being the one of the few services with no hifi
- Well given this meme I figured it was just a stand in for streaming anyways.
  Also I’m willing to bet the vast majority of people don’t even have the equipment to tell the difference between lossless and not.
- Well....yeah. it's easy and convenient using something I already carry everywhere with me and sounds perfectly fine to the majority of people.

I guees I'm stuck in the 2000s as I still rocking my 10,000 mp3 collection lol

And tape is just now starting to get popular again with the hipsters. Big reel-to-reel machines.

Place your bets on when playing midis on old Windows 3.1 computers will explode again!

I assume people buy Vinyls of their favourite artists as a kind of poster (which also physically contains the music)... not to actually listen to it.

I consider it a way of actually supporting them. Sure I listen to them digitally 99% of the time but they get such a small cut from that.

what happened with spotify?

So, are we all going to just ignore the 8tracks?

Where are the 8-tracks?

In Hell
- Where it plays the same songs over and over in an endless loop. Until the head alignment gets off. Then it plays two different songs at the same time.
OP never heard of em.
It's a cartridge tape. Think cassette tape inside a nes cartridge

Cassette tapes are also sort of coming back. There are modern ones are both USB compatible and compatible with old cassette players. They exist mostly for the market of people who own old cars that don't have modern radios.

excuse me, pirated cds were all the rage in eastern europe in 2008

Lol, this is off by decades and Spotify is away now popular than records right now

Stock up on cassettes right meow