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This just in: A kid traded in his iPod for a Sony Walkman for a week...and lived to blog about it.

The story is this: A plugged in teen had heard from his dad all about the low-tech granddaddy of MP3 players, the Sony Walkman. So "Generation Internet" agreed to take one small step backward and switch out his palm-sized digital player with the 1979 analog original for a week.

You can read the 13-year-old's entire blog post here, which details the taunts he endured on the school bus, the trauma of learning how to "fast forward" and "rewind," and his disappointment in the "bland grey" color and bulky size of the so-called portable player. The culture shock was huge. But perhaps a small technology divide was bridged between father and son.