Goodbye, VHS
All the instructors at BGSU (where I teach) just received word that the IT department is removing all the VCRs from campus classrooms.
I’m 36, and VHS tapes have been part of the curriculum since I was in preschool. For me, it’s the end of an era in ed tech.
(Does anyone think kids will be watching The Letter People on Blu-Ray 35 years from now?)
Thanks for everything, VHS. Without you, my generation would never have known what foreign people sound like when asking directions to the library, what volcanoes look like when they’re erupting, or what bad dialogue irresponsible teens use right before they contract “social diseases” or die in car accidents. You captured our youths in low resolution and pacified us through countless teacher sick days with repeated showings of the “Back to the Future” trilogy. (Why? We may never know.)
You will be missed.
Your friends,
Generation X
