I’d buy that. It’ll look great next to my 1990 Taurus.

It’s an opportunity to learn to weld!

People are dumb. This thing was brilliant.

It’s super dependent on how they were stored. I have 30 years old VHS tapes that are fine.

Keep them out of sunlight, high humidity, and preferably in a climate controlled place (not your basement)

Most definitely!

But somehow it was. I think early 50s models leaked radiation or some such which is why there was the whole “don’t sit too close” thing.

Anyway i have 6 CRTs. 2 from the 80s and the rest from the late 90s to 00s.

They’re super neat!

TVs used to be a sealed particle accelerator. You should read up on them, it’s fascinating.

My mom calls it the idiot box. Aptly named, i suppose.

Yeah it used to be like the wild west. Plenty of danger and exploration to be found. Now everything feels very samey, and overly sanitized. For better and worse. However I’m definitely glad some of the real seedy crap the old internet had is gone, or at least way harder to find.