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by t_akosuke 1944 days ago
I have like 3 vcrs, a capture device and a pretty big collection for my tiny apartment. In my city (Berlin) putting free boxes in the street is common practice and between that and the abundant junk stores I can always find new material. Sometimes i find a full collection that feels like getting the login details to someone's pre-internet "accounts" - i recently found a box obviously belonging to a GI stationed in Germany, it had a good cross section of American pop culture, military aviation stunt videos, family home videos and the crown jewel, a tape called "Thank you america!" made by the German army for the GIs. I also cherish very much the boatload of random tapes i got from the closing of a video rental place in Japan... The tapes cost 50 cent each, ended up costing me a good $300 in excess weight at the airport (plus a bit of a sweat as i entered another store and they set off the alarms, causing an army of employees to cover them with alarm defusing bags!), but that stuff is actually priceless and you can't find it anywhere in the internet.
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> you can't find it anywhere in the internet.

would you have time to change that by uploading some (e.g. to archive.org) ?