Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why VHS tapes are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Epic Fails: The Edsel, the Mullet, and Other Icons of Unpopular Culture by Salvador Jiménez Murguía
- A VHS copy of ‘Back to the Future’ has sold for $75,000 at auction (NPR)
- VHS copy of ‘Back to the Future’ sells for $75,000, setting a new auction record (CNN Entertainment)
- 10 VHS Tapes That Are Worth Money — No, Really (Mental Floss)
- June 4, 1977: VHS Comes to America (Wired Magazine)
- Aperture Digitizing Blog: “VHS? What Does It Mean?” (Kodak)
- Aperture Digitizing Blog: “Inner Working of the VHS Tape” (Kodak)
- How to Digitize Your Videos, Records and 8mm Films (Popular Mechanics)
- Encyclopedia Britannica entry for magnetic recording, electronics
- DVDs are Introduced, 9/1996 to 3/1997 (HistoryOfInformation.com)
- DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS tapes: How long does physical media last? (Gizmodo)
- How the 90s VHS look works (Tom Scott / YouTube)
- 11 Forgotten Media Formats of Yesteryear (Popular Mechanics)
- Why VHS and Five Other Formats May Live Forever (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The Hardware/Software Necromancer: Cartrivision, the Long-Forgotten Forerunner to the VCR (Michigan State University Libraries)
- In the 90s Your Spare VHS Could Be a Backup Hard Drive (Popular Mechanics)
- ArVid: how Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s (Jacob Filipp)
- Corvus Systems 6MB Hard Drive (ComputingHistory.org.uk)
- upload of the Alpha Microsystems AMOS/L Video Cassette Recorder Backup Software user’s manual
- How to Save Files From a PC to a VHS Tape (Vice)
- Before Tinder, There Was Video Dating (JStor Daily)
- Videocassette Dating Let Singles Fast-Forward to Love (Atlas Obscura)
- How 1970s VCR dating paved the way for Tinder and Hinge (Vox.com)
- YouTube was meant to be a video-dating website (The Guardian)
- Man Arrested Over Failing to Return VHS Rental (NPR)
- Woman jailed for not returning VHS of JLo movie 9 years ago (CNET)
- The Jerry Maguire Pyramid (Everything Is Terrible!)
- This Vancouver man collects Jerry Maguire tapes — to build a pyramid in the desert (CBC News)
- Experience: I own nearly 3,000 VHS tapes of Titanic (The Guardian)
- Someone Is Driving Around With Too Many (?) Copies of ‘Speed’ on Their Dashboard (Atlas Obscura)
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