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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 months agoWasn’t the actual “Discman” a Sony product? In the same line as their Walkman cassette players, but for CDs? I had a Walkman back in the day; but never an official Discman player. All my CD players were pieces of shit 😩
minus-squareDonut@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoThis is an interesting phenomenon called a proprietary eponym, where a brand name becomes synonymous with a product. Just like walkman and disc man, in my language we call a car satnav a “TomTom” after the brand that popularised it here.
Wasn’t the actual “Discman” a Sony product? In the same line as their Walkman cassette players, but for CDs?
I had a Walkman back in the day; but never an official Discman player. All my CD players were pieces of shit 😩
This is an interesting phenomenon called a proprietary eponym, where a brand name becomes synonymous with a product.
Just like walkman and disc man, in my language we call a car satnav a “TomTom” after the brand that popularised it here.