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“Have you seen this video?” my friend asked as he held up one of those VHS tape covers you’d commonly find at video rental stores like this one.

It was the late 80s, and watching a video was one of the main rituals for us young teenage kids. Every Friday, we’d head up to the video store and pick up two or three older titles for 99 cents each. As long as rewound the VHS tapes and brought them back in by Sunday night, we were golden.

This little trip down memory lane got me thinking about how the word video has changed so much over my lifetime.

First, let’s travel back a couple thousand years, as one does.

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