![Smithsonian on Twitter: "We don't mean to ruin your Monday but this turns 40 today. In 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2—the world's first portable music player—went on sale. This one is in Smithsonian on Twitter: "We don't mean to ruin your Monday but this turns 40 today. In 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2—the world's first portable music player—went on sale. This one is in](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-ZKjT0UIAAI5bw.jpg)
Smithsonian on Twitter: "We don't mean to ruin your Monday but this turns 40 today. In 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2—the world's first portable music player—went on sale. This one is in
Virgin Megastore - On this day in 1979, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 changed how the world listens to music. 🎧 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yes Gen-Zs, your on-demand streaming platforms weren't born yet... people had
![Sony TPS-L2 Walkman and MDR-5A headphones. Identical to the ones used by Peter Quill in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | Walkman, Sony walkman, Sony Sony TPS-L2 Walkman and MDR-5A headphones. Identical to the ones used by Peter Quill in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | Walkman, Sony walkman, Sony](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/01/bc/23/01bc23e9904b8a2a3b6a262171c97aa9--peter-quill-of-the-galaxy.jpg)