Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of videos being given away for free

[doener]

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/video-editing-graphic-design/gigantic-vhs-videotape-hoard-of-thousands-of-videos-stored-in-mcdonalds-boxes-being-given-away-for-free-internet-archive-looks-set-to-claim-the-tapes-of-u-s-news-output-spanning-2004-09

[irthomasthomas]

Looks like these are going to the internet archive, so we'll probably never see them digitized. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ouprgf/free_t...

[zucked → irthomasthomas]

>so we'll probably never see them digitized

That seems to run contradictory to the author's claim in the article and what I believe to be true about the internet archive. Can you elaborate?

[squigz → zucked]

I'm just guessing but it might have to do with the concerns raised by the first commenter in the reply by textfiles (Jason Scott) in that reddit thread

tl;dr seems to be they received a massive (71,000 tapes) archive that hasn't seen any activity or communication in 7 years.

If you read further in the thread, you'll also find other concerns about Jason's reliability

[textfiles → squigz]

Yeah, it's a nail-biter.

[squigz → textfiles]

Well they do kind of seem like reasonable concerns, though I'm assuming/hoping there's more to the story.

[evanjrowley]

Glad to see this came from the r/DataHoarder subreddit[0] because that's exactly the correct place for it.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

[zucked]

Even mundane recordings become interesting to me once enough time passes. I've watched a bunch of Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network programming from early days and to be honest, the commercials are more interesting than the cartoons because they so perfectly capture where we were as a society -- toys starting to integrate new technology, sugary cereals being touted as part of daily breakfast, etc. Fascinating stuff.

[nocoiner → zucked]

Same thing with old magazines. The articles - eh, I could take them or leave them. But I just get lost in the advertisements.