DATA HOARDING IS FUN!

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Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Types 2:45 Why Hoard? 4:22 Conservation 5:56 Prepping 9:33 Sharing is Caring 10:22 Collecting 12:33 Storage 15:27 Outro

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Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012)[1] was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist, especially known for her compulsive hoarding[2][3] and archiving of hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012,[3][4] at which time she operated nine properties and three storage units.[2] According to The Los Angeles Review of Books review of the 2019 documentary film Recorder, Stokes's massive project of recording the 24-hour news cycle "makes a compelling case for the significance of guerrilla archiving."[3]

Collections Television news Some of Stokes's tape collection consisted of 24/7 coverage of Fox, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, and other networks—recorded on up to eight separate VCRs in her house. Also included are the 1984 JVC VHS deck set recording regular programs from Boston at a six-hour Extended Play format.[5] She had a husband and children, and family outings were planned around the length of a VHS tape. Every six hours, when the tapes ran out, Stokes and her husband switched them out—even cutting meals short at restaurants to make it home to switch out tapes in time. Later in life, when she was less agile, Stokes trained a helper to do the task for her.[6] The archives grew to about 71,000 (originally erroneously reported as 140,000 in the media)[7][6] VHS and Betamax tapes (many up to eight hours each) stacked in her home and apartments she rented just to store them.[4]

Stokes became convinced there was a lot of detail in the news at risk of disappearing forever, so she began taping. Her son Michael Metelits told WNYC that Stokes "channeled her natural hoarding tendencies to [the] task [of creating an archive]".[2]

Stokes's collection is not the only instance of massive television footage taping, but the care in preserving the collection is very unusual. Known collections of similar scale have not been as well-maintained and lack the timely and local focus.[8]

Macintosh computers Stokes bought many Macintosh computers since the brand's inception,[6] along with various other Apple peripherals. Until the time of her death, 192 of the computers remained in her possession. Stokes kept the unopened items in a climate-controlled storage garage for posterity. The collection, speculated to be one of the last of its nature remaining, sold on eBay to an anonymous buyer.[9] Sensing the immense potential of the Apple brand during its infancy, Stokes invested in Apple stock with capital from her in-laws while the company was still fledgling. Later, she encouraged her already rich in-laws to invest in Apple, advice they took and profited greatly from, increasing their wealth even further. Stokes then allocated part of her profits to her recording project,[10] which was important for her work, especially for the first few years when videotapes were a new, expensive technology.

Others Stokes received half a dozen daily newspapers and 100–150 monthly periodicals,[2] collected for half a century.[6] She accumulated 30,000–40,000 books. Metelits told WNYC that in the mid-1970s the family frequented the bookstore to purchase $800 worth of new books.[2] She also collected toys and dollhouses.[11]

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded on May 10, 1996, and chaired by free information advocate Brewster Kahle.[1][2][4] It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet. As of February 4, 2024, the Internet Archive holds more than 44 million print materials, 10.6 million videos, 1 million software programs, 15 million audio files, 4.8 million images, 255,000 concerts, and over 835 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine.[5] Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".[5]

The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures.[6][7] The Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LusoneT3ixI