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LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EDT: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Weird stuff? Commercials? Home movies? #lostmedia we can upload to the @internetarchive? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? is live tonight on Twitch. Which tape should we start with?

So THATs what my problem is... 🤔 I have never been diagnosed with ADHD but I have a lot of the symptoms.

@landofthe80s My cousins who were older got this and I remember them bringing it at Christmas time but it must have been 1979- I can imagine I would remember otherwise

Today in 1978, Milton Bradley introduced the electronic game, Simon. BITE-SIZED FACT | The game made its debut at the iconic Studio 54 nightclub in New York City, quickly becoming a must-have Christmas toy in 1978.

The sort of texts my wife and I send each other

Holy crap. Monday's show is gonna be fire

Went to our anniversary dinner at a nice restaurant tonight where we were recorded by our server, apparently through his glasses, without our permission for his Instagram channel. As we paid, he showed us his Instagram channel and showed us the video he took and asked if he could post it. We asked him to delete it and if his manager knew he was recording diners. He just said no one else has ever complained. I asked to talk to the manager. Manager seemed to know and asked “if the light was on.” I assume this meant on the glasses indicating he was recording. We noticed no light. He said he would make him remove the glasses, which was how we became aware he was recording with the glasses. Needless to say, I am now a dog with a bone and this is not over.

when (good) design used to matter EVERYWHERE even in sugar cube packaging:

@thebrokenplate Those chicken earrings are amazing

This week (and next) in shards.

IN THE OFFICE: Digitizing #filmstrips and soundtracks on #cassette for eventual upload to the @internetarchive. Watch nearly-lost media get saved in real-time.

gentle reminder that ‘high functioning’ just means you’re suffering in a way that’s convenient for everyone else and i said what i said

1980s Cartoon Vitamins

Did someone say filmstrips?

@uncommnephemera I think people don’t understand the time it takes from initial scan to final product. And that there is a pipeline of multiple filmstrips.

Serious question: Am I not effectively communicating what I do? Do other people actually feel this way? Is there something I'm not doing that is causing people to feel this way? I'd like to see what this guy could even do if he'd only raised $1,000 since the first of the year.

Scanned and uploaded to the @internetarchive: Part of a 1967 Jam Handy series on the history of books, this #filmstrip teaches the history of the alphabet.

@RetroNewsNow That is so cool!

📺Unused footage from 1981’s ‘On Golden Pond,’ including shots of Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn driving through the New Hampshire countryside, was repurposed for much of the opening credits of the 1980s CBS sitcom ‘Newhart’

Scanned and uploaded to the @internetarchive: This 1967 #filmstrip, part of a unit on Asia, introduces students to then-modern Japan.

Most holidays were created to make money. Which in my book makes them optional.

@Periscope_Film_ This is the kind of stuff that makes the challenges more bearable

This is super cool -- we just got an email from Christopher P. who writes: The bus operator that appears throughout your film 'The Operator and Safety'(youtu.be/2JHjcg9Eovg?si…) -- is my grandfather, William Rechner. This is Philadelphia and the transportation company is Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC). As you can imagine, this film has incredible meaning to me. I am still in disbelief seeing this. Thank you, Christopher P."

Giggle for today ... check out this "Effen Products" 16mm film can. Hey jerko, stick your Effen film in your Effen can! (Question: were the folks at Effen Products in on the joke ... or was most of Brooklyn laughing at them behind their backs?!)

These were amazing