{"id":10667,"date":"2020-05-03T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2020-05-17T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T23:54:12","slug":"internet-archive-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/03\/internet-archive-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Archive Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2020\/05\/01\/watch-a-slew-of-vintage-mtv-fr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from BoingBoing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch a slew of vintage MTV from the 1980s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/author\/david_pescovitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DAVID PESCOVITZ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vintage MTV 1983 Part 2\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swx4V_aTYkQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Archive.org contributor Windsinger is uploading their entire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mtv-80s-vhs-full-recording-collection\/1981.08.01+-+MTV+First+Four+Hours+-+12am+Saturday+August+1st%2C+1981.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VHS collection of MTV recordings from the channel&#8217;s finest era<\/a>, from its launch on August 1, 1981 until 1989 (with a few 1991 episodes of 120 Minutes thrown in for good measure). It&#8217;s remarkable how the channel has evolved (?) from its pioneering earliest days filled with new music, youth culture, and visual experimentalism to its current form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been collecting recordings of full, unedited, WITH commercials &amp; especially the VJs for years,&#8221; Windsinger writes. &#8220;I&#8217;ve found these videos from old websites, torrent sites, sharing things, The Original MTV VJs facebook page, and of course the Archive.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2020\/05\/01\/watch-a-slew-of-vintage-mtv-fr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at BoingBoing<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BoingBoing Watch a slew of vintage MTV from the 1980s by DAVID PESCOVITZ Archive.org contributor Windsinger is uploading their entire\u00a0VHS collection of MTV recordings from the channel&#8217;s finest era, from its launch on August 1, 1981 until 1989 (with a few 1991 episodes of 120 Minutes thrown in for good measure). It&#8217;s remarkable how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}