2 Sony Discman
No list of obsolete or outdated technology would be complete without a portable CD player like Sony’s Discman (which was later rebranded at the CD Walkman in 2000). Younger people might be baffled, but these were actually devices that many of us carried around on a daily basis.
CDs were actually high-tech at the time — and burning mixtapes onto blank CDs was a 90s/00s right-of-passage. But, of course, they weren’t without their faults. Portable CD players were bulky, you had to carry CDs with you if you wanted to switch it up, and moving it would usually lead to your music skipping.