#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #endangeredarchives, aggregated by home.social.
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Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/27/rotting-tape-and-the-gentrification-of-african-pop-why-we-must-save-the-nollywood-archive-the-quietus/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
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How-To Geek: Your Old Audio Cassette Collection Is Destroying Itself. “So, for some inexplicable reason, cassette tape collecting is now also a thing alongside vinyl. This time there aren’t even any arguments about analog sound quality, it just seems to be a vibe but, hey, you do you! However, if you’re building a cassette collection, or you have one from before, you should know that this form […]
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IndieWire: Vidiots Launches Initiative to Preserve Rare VHS, with 1,500 Tapes Identified So Far. “Altogether, Vidiots has so far identified 1,500 tapes from the vast, decades-old collection, many vulnerable to deterioration. The project has a long journey ahead — with research required to locate rights holders, then licensing titles, to make them available in updated physical media forms to […]
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ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]
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INFO 653 Knowledge Organization: Recovering Lost Media. “The Lost Media Wiki is a grassroots community lead project to track down and archive pieces of media (video, audio, video games, art, or printed) that have been lost or been made inaccessible to the public. Beginning in 2012 on its previous website, the wikia has grown into a massive cataloging initiative with a community of over 17,000 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/info-653-knowledge-organization-recovering-lost-media/