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"The 3.5mm headphone jack is one of the elder statesmen of the personal tech world, having become ubiquitous with the rise of mp3 players, smartphones, and othe
by rob74 11y ago
"The 3.5mm headphone jack is one of the elder statesmen of the personal tech world, having become ubiquitous with the rise of mp3 players, smartphones, and other mobile devices" - maybe the author is too young to remember that, but I think the "mobile device" that really helped make the 3.5mm headphone jack ubiquitous was the Sony Walkman back in the eighties.
- pmarreck 11y agocame here to say the same thing. It's even called the "mini" jack because it's a smaller version of the 6.35mm "phone connector" which dates... all the way back to 1878 when it was used for manual telephone exchanges (!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)