Funny, I was having this discussion with my wife earlier in the week about what is old becomes new again, if anybody is familiar with the expression. It's crazy the number of not just modern stuff, but vintage stuff that gets thrown out regularly, scrapped, disposed of at the transfer station, etc. Point is: everyone owns VHS tapes and there's no place to buy VCR's anymore (and to some extent, the dreaded Betamax). Everyone owns vinyl records, but until very recently, there were no new turntables available. Go down the list: rotary phones, film cameras, even Hi-8 recorders. Heck, people are even starting to pay CRAZY money for tv's from the 80's specifically to play NES and 2600 consoles. VCRs are going for $25 each all day. It's a strange world we live in, but supply and demand is still very real. Keep this stuff if you find them.
On a different note and more along the lines of the original topic, it's heartbreaking the stuff that gets shipped to places like Africa and India, there are whole regions that are completely destroyed by the hazardous effects of dealing with e-waste. There are areas the size of Rhode Island that look like Hiroshima in 1945 within these areas. Scary, quite frankly.
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