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Today I learned about Marion Stokes, who got several VCRs and taped live television from 1977 until her death in 2012. For much of this time she kept multiple VCRs running 24/7. In total she collected around 71,000 tapes—hundreds of thousands of hours of video. Later she added collections of newspapers, magazines, and Mac computers.

All to protect against fake news.

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

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Marion Stokes - Wikipedia

stuckfick wrote the following post Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:35:59 +0100 To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

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Marion Stokes - Wikipedia