Kids these days...

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Walkman, the BBC gave one to a 13-year-old kid to see how he reacted to it.

Not well, is the answer.

"My friends couldn't imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing was and how it worked."

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."

Outstanding.