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I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them

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Post by asdefghyk »

pjc50 wrote: post #180
fallinditch wrote: post #21

It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…

So this is the "having stuff weighs you down thread", I guess tomorrow something people like will get deleted off streaming services and we'll have the "owning physical media is The Way" thread. The thing about archives is that it's never clear what will turn out to be important or valuable. You're buying and storing a pile of lottery tickets. Yes, they're probably worthless. But only probably. I suspect a lot of peo…

My Observation: If the item is kept long enough, just about EVERYTHING becomes valuable. (I guess that's because other similar items are lost or destroyed over time )

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Post by pininja »

andai wrote: post #274
pjc50 wrote: post #180

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So this is the "having stuff weighs you down thread", I guess tomorrow something people like will get deleted off streaming services and we'll have the "owning physical media is The Way" thread. The thing about archives is that it's never clear what will turn out to be important or valuable. You're buying and storing a pile of lottery tickets. Yes, they're probably worthless. But only probably. I suspect a lot of peo…

I've started saving web pages, since several of my favorite websites went offline, and some even self-deleted from WayBack Machine. The impression I get is that if I want something to continue existing, it's my responsibility to make that happen. On a darker note, this appears to be true of civilization in general...

I only started to really appreciate having a web page archive after cataloging the coffee I drank, which often have pages full of detail about the beans until they sell out and then, poof!, they’re taken offline.

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Post by lukas099 »

nl wrote: post #151
onlypassingthru wrote: post #127

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This raises an interesting question: Who is the oldest person still alive to us that we know of by name?

In terms of actually _known_ in the meaning meant (people have some awareness of what they did) probably the Pharaohs Djoser (born 2686BCE) who built the stepped pyramid at Saqqara. Maybe Gilgamesh, who may well have been a historical king of Uruk sometime between 2900 – 2350 BCE. Enmebaragesi[1] probably existed around 2600 BCE but not much is known about him other than he was a King of Kish. Figures in the old test…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iry-Hor

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Post by egorfine »

vel0city wrote: post #282
egorfine wrote: post #187

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> really old hard drives (anywhere from 10G to 40G) VHS was already totally obsolete when 1+GB HDD came to consumer market...

I don't think I agree with that. The first 1GB consumer drives came out in like 1993. I remember having a several GB (I think a little over 4GB?) hard drive on a home computer sold with Windows 95. DVD wouldn't come out for about another two years in the US and wouldn't have been widely used until at least 1998+. My 1998 desktop had something like 11GB of space. DVD burners and players wouldn't really be very afforda…

Yeah. Memory failed me a bit here so i agree with you and stand corrected

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Post by atum47 »

atum47 wrote: post #57

You can boil the tape and make some tea; so I've heard. This is a joke, please don't do that.

I guess people did not like my joke, but growing up "chá de fita" (tea made out of vhs tapes) were a common drug heavy drug users would drink. Legend has that the effects of this type of drug never wears off. Metal poisoning, i guess.

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Post by lippihom »

chongli wrote: post #64
fallinditch wrote: post #21

It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…

Not just a male thing! [1] It might be the case that men are more likely to be collectors/hoarders in general but there definitely are women who partake. I will also say that the type of thing being collected matters. Go to an estate sale for a woman (especially one born before 1960) and you may see collections of dolls, tea services, certain types of paintings, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

Looks like one of the shows she recorded was the Oprah Winfrey Show. Wonder if she has a taped copy of the Trump interview from 1988 that seems to have been erased from the internet. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/j7l8y5/bounty_....

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Post by themaninthedark »

randomdata wrote: post #191
ahartmetz wrote: post #172

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What's the purpose of going to the extreme of having no stuff, anyway? I like to have a collection of tools and parts as well as a collection of books. As a child, I could find books in our collection at home, and when visiting friends with a book collection, I like to browse it and ask about some of the books. I have and use an e-reader, but the reading experience is a little worse and browsing is much worse.

> I like to have a collection of tools and parts as well as a collection of books. But, with respect to the parent, would it matter if you didn't own them? What if, say, tools, parts, and books belonged to the land? There for you to use, but if you move to another plot of land you wouldn't take them with you, but instead would have another set of tools, parts, and books waiting for you when you arrive. Would somethin…

I think it would, when you use a thing you attach memories to it. Makes people sentimental.

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Post by dangsux »

Sakos wrote: post #41
dangsux wrote: post #29

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Why the BBC? It should go to archives like archive.org and publicly accessible "pirate" archives, so corporations like the BBC can't stick it in a vault and bury it.

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