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We are in 2021 and there are still new ( old ) video and audio resources from Steve Jobs that we had never seen before.

Did someone somehow had a VHS type and discover we had this video and upload it? If not what the story behind the discovery of this video and interview?

And I sort of think Steve is still very much Steve even in his early 20s. His understanding of market, business, computing and user experience. Apple just isn't the same without him.



This is the raw tape from a piece ABC did, it did air but edited down a bunch. It's only rare because the site it's on requires Silverlight! Funny how that happens.

I've got a bunch more raw ABC tapes uploaded like Frank Zappa talking about Larry Flynt, 2 hours of b-roll of E3 1995, and an Atari Car Chase simulator being demonstrated to police in Miami.


>I've got a bunch more raw ABC tapes uploaded like Frank Zappa talking about Larry Flynt, 2 hours of b-roll of E3 1995, and an Atari Car Chase simulator being demonstrated to police in Miami.

ARH!!! Upload them all I want to watch it. Thanks for doing it this got me really excited.


I try! Highly recommend you go through btm0815ma's channel if you wanna see more of the ABC stuff. He and I are the main archivists of it and he beats me to cool stuff, like Star Wars premiering in Japan. https://youtube.com/channel/UCVTQ7Jdm8_6L3RxH3_EAGMQ


Probably some broadcaster employee who saved some tapes from destruction a decade or two later. See also: r/DataHoarder. Aren't we all lucky?


This is all thanks to ABC archiving everything, not an employee saving a tape. However that does happen sometimes at other networks.

ABC and WGBH/PBS are some of the better ones you can find almost full digitized archives of online. Other broadcasters like NBC didn't save tapes until 1980 (multiple Late Night with Letterman episode masters being lost as an example). CNN is another somewhat bad one, they literally threw all the masters to their theme music in the dumpster, but an employee saved them all. They have an internal archive of tapes as well as the "CNN Collection" but it's spotty.


Oh, ABC/PBS have mostly digitized archives online? Where? How did you get access to this video to post it on Youtube?

(Anyway, thanks for doing it!)


Yep. ABC is less digitized and hides most full broadcast programs from the public (gotta be an employee for that). But https://www.abcnewsvsource.com/ is the Silverlight run site with everything. Someone should probably archive everything incase the Silverlight shutdown this year kills the site. Ripping it is mildly easy.

PBS/WGBH stores everything at https://americanarchive.org/ which for copyright reasons, some stuff can only be viewed at the LOC or WGBH. The physical only content includes a number of interesting items though like the few Mr. Rogers episodes not aired on Twitch, or around 2000 non-public but aired Sesame Street episodes.


Sounds like a job for Jason Scott


Archive Team already has some private archives of news stuff that I assume they'd like to add to. They have rips of every nightly news broadcast from 1969 till 2018 which they'll probably never release. Would love to help them though.




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