The Internet Archive has a treasure/trash trove of 20,000 VHS recordings from the 1980s and 1990s

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Do they have 20 Minute Workout? That was my favorite after school program

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I’m amazed to finally see this Salem Witch Trials movie, I would search youtube for it every few years to no avail-- we were shown this as kids and it was legendary among our small group of friends for the girl’s line “blood of dead babies!!” and Tituba’s reply “No, chicken blood.”

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I love the Archive and have it on my shortcut toolbar. Donate a few bucks when you can.

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Want to watch the 1935 film version of Les Misérables?

-Pass

Want to work out with Traci Lords?

-Pass

Want to watch every single episode of Salute Your Shorts?

-Pa. . .wait. . .yes!

How about an introduction to Windows 95 with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry?

-Pass. I’ve seen it, entertaining but not worth a repeat watch.

-But what I really, really want is the complete “The Adventures of Pete and Pete”, and Nickelodeon seems to have the goods locked up tighter than the Disney Vault.

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Well there goes anything productive I was gonna do today.

There also seem to be copyright violations galore there.

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Dang it. I can’t find The San Pedro Beach Bums.

Friends don’t let Friends run Windows…

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Any Kmart employee orientation videos? Those are fun lol

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Employment training videos by John Cleese?
They are really not as funny as you’d hope.

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Same.
I know a local guy that records and uploads every show here when it’s allowed. His recordings are pretty solid.
Of course just about every Dead show ever taped is up there along with a ton of other bands that allow recording.

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had to watch some of these in the '90s. Have not liked Cleese since then

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@TomPoston The Internet Archive is an incredible tool. I use it for personal interests and for work. It is an indispensable tool for finding older technical information (manuals, etc). And I have donated to them - just a fantastic resource

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Sorry I’m usually one for freedom of speech etc but it took 20 seconds to find a video that would be banned on any corporate network and it’s content would not be allowed on any other than the most hard core porn sites.

the elo concert is a billion times better quality than my blu ray recording which is a bit discussing considering

So how was it?

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