Now that we're in a time when everyone has a camera in their pocket with the ability to capture virtually any moment that occurs in front of them in all of 4K's glorious quality, we've become very "blase blase" about the moments we capture with those devices. So many of them that just seem...throwaway. But the further back we look, the more rare those moments seem. The more we realize that events like your 6th grade talent show taped in 1990 on VHS by one of your classmate's dad was a very few-and-far-between type of moment that we were incredibly fortuitous to even be able to capture in the first place.
All these years later, we're finally beginning to realize that those one-off moments that we can never get back are stored on these fragile, plastic cassettes that can only be played back on a machine made specifically for them, and those machines are become more and more difficult to find every year. Even the tapes themselves might also be in the process of deterioration. Videotapes in general begin to degrade in 10-20 years, so with that in mind, a video recorded on tape in 1990 is over 30 years old now, so if it hasn't been done yet then it's well past time to salvage those moments so they can be shared, preserved, and passed down before they're lost forever.
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