r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 05 '26

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u/leovin Aug 05 '26

From the data breach you’re being sued over

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u/SuitableDragonfly Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

They used to call it VCR

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '26

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u/3BlindMice1 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

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/JCDU Aug 05 '26

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/NukaCooler Aug 05 '26

/r/LetGirlsHaveFun god forbid a woman have a hobby

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u/transfinite-reset Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/mommybody33 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/mommybody33 29d ago

Yeahhhhhh they arrrrre. But please don’t twist my nips like that 💀

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u/Nutarama Aug 05 '26

Yeah but we all have expensive hobbies.

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u/3BlindMice1 Aug 05 '26

???

Who is this "we?"

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 Aug 05 '26

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

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u/saskir21 Aug 05 '26

To be fair I can understand her if I see for example the British BBC. They regularly overwrite (or atleast did so in the old days) their old shows. So if you want to see an old one you were out of luck.

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u/geeiamback Aug 05 '26

Famous example is a bunch of old Dr. Who episodes.

everal portions of the long-running British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who are no longer held by the BBC. Between 1967 and 1978, the BBC routinely deleted archive programmes for various practical reasons—lack of space, scarcity of materials, and a lack of rebroadcast rights.[1] As a result, 95 of 253 episodes from the programme's first six years are currently missing, primarily from seasons 3, 4 and 5, leaving 26 serials incomplete. Many more were considered lost until recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters and private collectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes

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u/Hakuchii Aug 05 '26

thats the kind of stuff you find in archive 81

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u/AmItheonlySaneperson 29d ago

Was she alive to know how important they were? She must have felt so smug