I love watching these old vhs rips. They are like little mpg time capsules of pop culture.

Commenter Chris Schmidt on Boing Boing’s link to 3 hours of MTV from 1983, uncut, with commercials.  Praise be to the always-germane Applelogen for presenting the artifact intact.

Far be it for me to prognosticate (again) but I think this format of archival media will be more and more important as our media grows more granular.

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