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    8 months ago

    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.

    • @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      138 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.