CD players

“People are wanting to restore all sorts, like Sony Walkmans, radio tape decks, and portable CD players they had and loved as teenagers. There’s a lot of nostalgia there.”

However, a process similar to the way compact discs, or CDs, use lasers to store information and CD players use lasers to play it back could potentially work in the future, Jangid said.

Giving away the disc might have been the biggest challenge of the evening; not a lot of people own CD players these days.

He remembers listening to Tupac and Biggie on his siblings' CD players, and says 50 years of hip-hop has shaped him immensely as an artist.

Evans theorizes this is because people might have something — an old DVD player, laptop disc drive or video game console — capable of playing a DVD at home, whereas CD players are in far shorter supply.