Unironically this is why we need life skills classes to come back in school. Sure learning how to build a hovercraft in my engineering class was cool and all, but the only thing I still use from that class is knowledge of basic electrical wiring. We need to teach kids how to cook, clean, shovel, etc

That is actually what sold VCRs in the first place, and there is a lot of important history there when it comes to the legality of recording copyrighted content for personal use. Court cases and all!

I think it's important that we don't forget that history given how we don't get to own anything.

As whatever kind of technological historian I am, the reason it's important to me to keep the term VCR alive is that these devices could record TV shows.

Home video was not simply relegated to renting movies or purchasing your own tapes to build a library. You could record stuff from TV.

people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last let's say 40 years, it's very clear which states have their borders violated and which states do not

i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation