I worked at a video rental store in high school. Sometimes I was tasked with making signs for stuff, and would use the computer in the store, and a clip art program chocked FULL of clip art. I had so much fun digging through all the options, and putting together stuff that was MUCH more in-depth then needed, but it was fun! It makes me nostalgic, but I can understand why it went away as suddenly as it did.
This made me think about how much I miss the video store!
There was something really special about going out as a family and browsing all the cover art. Copies of Star Wars were always rented out at ours. Memories of renting a Godzilla movie you’d never seen, begging your dad for candy and popcorn on the way to the checkout counter. Good times. I miss them. 🥲
You and me both! I also swear that the descriptions on the back of VHS tapes were better written and gave a good idea of if the movie was interesting. Now, descriptions on the streaming services are like 1 or 2 sentences, and frequently give zero idea of what the movie is like!
I loved going to the movie store to rent a bunch of movies for a weekend. I also miss VHS due to audio mixing was done differently then, and you didn’t have the issue we have now with DVDs and streaming where dialog is quiet, so you turn it up, then gun fights and explosions are deafening, so you turn it back down again.
It’s one of those things that will pop into my mind every once in a while, only to be forgotten for months after. Same as ol Clippy
Back in the 90s my dad bought a huge clipart set, it came with a dictionary-sized book of printed thumbnails and about 20 CDs. Even back then I remember scrolling through it all and thinking wow this stuff looks like shit.
EDIT: Omg I found it on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234661793657
