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The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby sidd finch » Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:18 pm

The technology race keeps going faster and faster. For a trip down the technology of yesteryear how about a visit to the Museum of Obsolete Media. A sort of "island for lost toys" for technology.
http://www.obsoletemedia.org/
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In an age when the boundaries of geography, gender, vocation, style, art and politics continue to bend and blur, no area has gone through as rigorous a transformation as the physical storage of data, leaving in its track a slew of obsolete formats.

Designed and edited by Amsterdam's Experimental Jetset, Emigre 57 is an homage to lost formats—a celebration of customized mixtapes, obscure computer discs, and forgotten standards. The issue, while questioning its own physical manifestation as a magazine, reminds us how once each format used to contain its own specific data, while today the CD/DVD format is capable of containing ALL data, setting the stage for the final step, the mythical non-format.


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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby Chris B » Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:43 pm

Good find. And here is our beloved MiniDV

http://www.obsoletemedia.org/minidv/
By 2011, no consumer camcorders used video tape.
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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby Steve Grisetti » Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:23 pm

And remember when this was the state of the art way to share those huge 100 meg files?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby sidd finch » Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:09 pm

By 2011, no consumer camcorders used video tape.


That one was a hard one to read.... :(

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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:10 pm

In 2016 mine still does :)
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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby John 'twosheds' McDonald » Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:33 am

Chuck Engels wrote:In 2016 mine still does :)

+1 :hyst:
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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby Dave McElderry » Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:10 am

Chuck Engels wrote:In 2016 mine still does :)

:) Yeah, me too. I still have my Panny MiniDV camcorder and it's in perfect condition. But I haven't used it in several years. Don't want to get rid of it because my backups are still on the original tapes. Someday when I'm gone someone will go through my stuff and laugh and toss it in the trash. :pull:
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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby sidd finch » Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:39 pm

While this generation talks about how much video they have recorded the next generation will talk about how much they have thrown away... circle of life I guess. :)

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Re: The Museum of Obsolete Media

Postby momoffduty » Wed Jan 20, 2016 8:03 pm

Chuck Engels wrote:In 2016 mine still does :)


+1 here too! Just this summer I used 2 tape cams for daughter's wedding.
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