During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical formats became obsolete as music moved first to MP3 files, and later to ...

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. According to Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, Ottens was 94 when he died on March 6th.

The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who developed the cassette tape at Philips in 1963, died on Saturday, Dutch media reported Wednesday. He was 94. Ottens joined Philips in 1952 and rose to become head of ...

It’s with sadness that we note the passing at the age of 94 of the long-time Phillips engineer Lou Ottens, who is best known as the originator of the Compact Cassette audio tape format that was so ...

The boombox is back but this time it has Bluetooth and can even double as a guitar amplifier. The We Are Rewind Curtis cassette tape boombox is now availabe in the U.S.

Lou Ottens, who invented the compact cassette tape and had a hand in the development of the CD while working for Netherlands-based electronics company Philips, has died at the age of 94. The website ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died. He was 94. Amsterdam-based news outlet NRC Handelsblad confirmed the news but ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who gave the world the very first compact cassette tape, has died. Taylor spoke about the importance of cassette tapes to music stating, “Cassettes taught us how to use ...