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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When I was a dumb, naive kid, I just assumed that everything ever recorded, photographed, written, etc was saved somewhere in some form for the sake of history, art, science, and just posterity.

It was a huge gut check finding out that wasn't even remotely the case, and in fact a lot of good shit is gone forever because someone reused the tape or throw it out or whatnot. 😔

Everything we make is special. Even the dumb shit. It all needs to be preserved, catalogued, and recorded.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Video tape used to be insanely expensive, so it was very common to reuse the tapes. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of the early TV shows were lost. Back then the only way of recording video at home was on film, so it was very rare for anyone to have a copy of them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I love you Ross. You fighting the good fight. Probably for no reason as I doubt he'll have any impact... But I'm fucking rooting (I haven't watched it yet so maybe that'll change my mind.... But On bunny watch... She can't be trusted. )

edit - just finished. well written, well researched... but seems a lil optimistic even for how realistic he seems to be. but damn it i hope ~~he~~ WE win

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.