Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet
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#2Red Letter Media fans rejoice!
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#3How does one archive data for long term storage in 2020? From what little I've read, all of the media accessable to the layman has an archive lifetime of less than 30 years before physical degradation- NAND, tape, disc, whatever. That makes for a brittle civilization when the vast majority of our knowledge is stored on media and would be unrecoverable just 3 decades after a global calamity.
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#5I'm almost afraid to write this as I fear it will be removed soon and am surprised it hasn't been already but this was the first thing I looked for...
https://archive.org/details/star-wars-ONTV-Early-80s/Star+Wa...
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#6I'm almost afraid to write this as I fear it will be removed soon and am surprised it hasn't been already but this was the first thing I looked for... https://archive.org/details/star-wars-ONTV-Early-80s/Star+Wa...
Cool. But I was looking for the Christmas Special. ;)
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#7How does one archive data for long term storage in 2020? From what little I've read, all of the media accessable to the layman has an archive lifetime of less than 30 years before physical degradation- NAND, tape, disc, whatever. That makes for a brittle civilization when the vast majority of our knowledge is stored on media and would be unrecoverable just 3 decades after a global calamity.
If you want data to survive you've always needed to copy it. Digital storage just makes that easier to do in bulk. Copying Bibles was a full time task for huge teams of monks but you can (and should) make backups routinely on a daily or weekly basis with barely a thought.
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#8I prefer RedLetterMedia's use of VHS tapes. They use them to play a terrible version of Jenga, where they watch all the random VHS tapes collected by the "winner".
Also for some reason, Macaulay Culkin seems to be hanging out with them a lot. Maybe Milwaukie is just that much fun?
"Junka" -> https://youtu.be/9M39zY9OXFA
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#9I prefer RedLetterMedia's use of VHS tapes. They use them to play a terrible version of Jenga, where they watch all the random VHS tapes collected by the "winner". Also for some reason, Macaulay Culkin seems to be hanging out with them a lot. Maybe Milwaukie is just that much fun? "Junka" -> https://youtu.be/9M39zY9OXFA
The best part about RLM's Best of the Worst is that they all seem to hate doing it. There was one episode where they got terribly drunk and had to stop filming and come back a few days later.
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#10Is there an easy way to download results from that vault in mass (not having to click into each item)? Or is that not available?
EDIT: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/archive-downloader... - It looks like that's a solid option to use a Chrome extension for it.