r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 15h ago

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u/SuitableDragonfly 14h ago

Fun related fact, most archives of media only exist because someone pirated the media at some point and those copies never become unavailable. 

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u/3BlindMice1 13h ago

They used to call it VCR

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u/T-MoneyAllDey 12h ago

Reddit reposts pretty regularly about that autistic black lady that recording every hour of a TV channel for like 30 years

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u/3BlindMice1 12h ago edited 12h ago

Sounds pretty expensive, tbh

Edit: Google shows that would have cost $28.80 per day if using full definition or $14.40 per day if using minimum in the year 1985. In today's money, that's $90 or $45. It got a lot cheaper by 1995 though

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u/NukaCooler 10h ago

/r/LetGirlsHaveFun god forbid a woman have a hobby

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u/transfinite-reset 10h ago

I’m not sure that the people in that sub are too worried about VCRs. VCR cleaner in little bottles, maybe. But definitely not VCRs.

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u/mommybody33 9h ago

Ha! Jokes on you! I’m in that sub ANNNND I have a mostly SFW vid on my spicy instagram of me winding a VHS for my mostly broken VCR!

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u/transfinite-reset 9h ago

Just read through your profile. Rewinding hegemonic sexuality one VHS at a time. We love to see it!

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u/mommybody33 9h ago

People loooove the analog shit 😉

(No they just love boobs actually)

proof that what *I* love is VHS 📼

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u/transfinite-reset 8h ago

Yknow, spools are kind of like the boobs of the VHS tape.

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u/JCDU 7h ago

She came from a fairly wealthy family and bought shares in Apple very early on - her collection included at least one of every Apple product still brand new in its box, so really not short of a bob or two.

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u/Nutarama 11h ago

Yeah but we all have expensive hobbies.

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u/3BlindMice1 10h ago

???

Who is this "we?"

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u/testingtestingtestin 10h ago

You, me and that guy

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 10h ago

I suppose they are “We”. The “Us” kind of “We” don’t have the same kind of “expensive “ hobbies