onlyblackgirl: I can’t believe I actually lived

[dragonlady7]

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onlyblackgirl:

I can’t believe I actually lived though the full transition from VHS to DVD. Like there are people alive who have never seen a VHS tape….I remember when we were still tryna figure out how the fuck they got a full movie onto a cd. 

I’m old enough that I remember when *home* VHS tapes were first a thing. We didn’t get a VCR until I was in middle school. The first thing we watched on it was Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, which was on two tapes.

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[krait]

I lived through all of that, too, and it boggles my mind as well. We have home movies on VHS, and I remember both vinyl and cassette tapes before CDs came along.

More amusingly, I realised not long ago that my parents were media pirates, way before the Internet existed! We had two VCRs, and would rent movies and copy them onto a blank VHS and then return the rental... Kid!me thought this was a great way to acquire movies I liked without having to go to Blockbuster all the time.

Before that (and, in fact, before me) they would make cassette copies of their vinyl records, so that the record wouldn't get worn out with playing. Make a tape, play the tape till it wears out, make another tape - voila, your record lasts forever! :D