04-26-2011 Days Of Our Lives.avi -

Don’t delete it.

That file has texture . It has the ghost of the old NBC logo in the corner. It has the original commercial breaks (even if they were edited out, the awkward fade-to-blacks remain). It has the specific grain of 2011 digital compression. 04-26-2011 Days of our Lives.avi

Long live the .avi. Long live the tape traders. And for goodness' sake, make sure you have the right codec installed. Don’t delete it

You aren’t watching a soap opera. You’re watching how the internet loved television before the algorithms took over. look at the extension: .avi

More importantly, that file represents .

Then you see it.

Let’s crack it open. First, look at the extension: .avi