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   augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 22:01:00 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   Who remembers before the internet when if you missed something on TV you could never ever see it again and it was just gone forever
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 22:02:57 JST 翠星石

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage @augustus In that past that rarely happened as the master tapes for almost all TV shows were kept around, so the only shows that really ended up gone forever was those with lost master tapes and no known VHS recording (i.e. some star trek episodes).
     
     I do remember VHS, not the best format, but it's a fairly durable storage medium.
     
     
     When it comes to lost media, the amount of media lost is increasing at an ever increasing rate thanks to digital handcuffs (there's a reason why ninty has grabbed unauthorized copies of their own games off the internet for usage in their "retro game" emulators rather than finding the old master copy or finding and dumping one of their own carts).
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 22:02:59 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @augustus Who rembers VHS ?
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     Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:42:10 JST Pete Zaitcev

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     @augustus That happened to many lost Dr. Who episodes. Many fans saw them and remember them, but there's no media for them anymore. A few years ago several of those were uncovered in Australia and it was a big deal among boomers.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:42:41 JST Sick Sun

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     • Pete Zaitcev
     @zaitcev @augustus there are some that only exist as audio recordings because people didn't have VCRs but they had audio recorders so they recorded the episode live from that.