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Celebrate the cassette tape's 50th birthday by repurposing them Sep 13th 2013, 18:17 Happy 50th birthday, cassette tape! Today is the 50th anniversary of that most ubiquitous of 1980s cultural debris, the cassette tape! The "compact cassette tape" made its official debut on September 14, 1963, but became a mainstay of 1980s culture as the perfect compliment to the new generation of car stereos, portable boombox stereos, and the personal Walkman. As that crazy decade drew to a close, the CD began its rise as the dominant audio medium. Still, if you were around back then, chances are you have a box somewhere filled with dozens of badly dubbed mixtapes and regrettable music purchases. Thankfully, that menagerie of small brick-shaped plastic memories may be able to find a second life with just a little elbow grease. Here are some of our favorite DIY examples of the cassette tape reborn. A lamp With a little bit of work and a few supplies you already have lying around, you can turn your clear (or at least translucent) cassettes into a funky retro light-source. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Media files: tapes_primary-100054049-small.png

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