NORFOLK, Va. — For people of a certain age, cassette tapes bring back a lot of memories -- from your first mix-tape from a significant other, to the unbelievable frustration of trying to tape a ...

Two decades later, in 2018, Gergis and Mekdad met, and began to digitize their old cassette tapes in order to help preserve that era of music – especially as the civil war scattered Syrian culture.

Yet cassette tapes are having a moment. According to Luminate, an entertainment industry data collector, U.S. tape sales increased by more than 440 percent between 2015 and 2022.