JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for December 09, 2018

like how Jojo is trying to figure out “What is this?”

We still sell them at our church rummage sales. Many people are using the old formats because that’s what they own and it still works.

VHS tapes are magnetic tapes and after a few years they start to demagnetize and lose picture quality.

VHS? I have a basement full of Betamax tapes.

We still have a bunch of Super 8 movie film. Hubby transferred them to the computer. No sound – there never was – and there’s that click-click-click of the projector in the background, but they’re fun to watch.

As outdated what we had I trashed.

There’s a sketch comedy show on TRU called “Late Night Snack” that has a regular segment called “Found Footage Files,” featuring clips from VHS tapes of bizarre stuff from cable access. Such footage will be valuable to future generations of historians.

One person’s junk is another person’s treasure. I just read an article about a man collecting old AOL cds. A lot (meaning a box of them) sold for good money on eBay!

No one commented that the punchline was that Joe only had to think one night into the future, not hundreds of years…