Craig is a VHS archivist and lost media preservationist based in Columbus, Ohio. 672-tape physical archive. Four nights a week, live on Twitch. The stuff that was never meant to survive.
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What I Do
VHS preservation. Every year, thousands of tapes end up in landfills. Local TV broadcasts. Corporate training videos. Home recordings. Commercials that only aired in one market, once, in 1987. Nobody kept this stuff on purpose. It was disposable. Nobody thought it mattered.
I think it matters. I find tapes, digitize them live on stream, and archive whatever’s on them. A Cincinnati broadcast from 1989 with all the local commercials intact. Training videos from grocery chains that closed decades ago. Local news footage the network never kept. This is the stuff that falls through the cracks of official archives.
672 tapes cataloged and counting. The archive covers recordings from 1979 through the mid-2000s — home recordings, Sunbury Collection tapes, eBay finds, tapes sent in by viewers. Local markets from Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Wichita, Sacramento, and dozens of others. Lost media confirmed on dozens of tapes.
The Stream
Four nights a week, I go live and put in a tape. Sometimes I know what’s on it. Usually I don’t. That uncertainty is the whole point. No jump cuts. No highlight reel. Just whatever’s on the tape.
Around 60 viewers show up every stream. They help identify commercials, recognize locations, fill in context I’d never find on my own. Someone spots a local car dealership. Someone else remembers that exact ad from childhood. That’s how this works.
Send Me Your Tapes
If you cleaned out your parents’ attic and found a box of VHS, I want them. Local commercials, TV recordings, corporate training, mystery tapes with no label. If it was recorded on magnetic tape, it belongs in the archive, not a dumpster.
PO Box 281
Canal Winchester, OH 43110
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Questions
Who is 90s Craig?
Craig is a VHS archivist and lost media preservationist based in Columbus, Ohio. He runs a 672-tape physical archive and streams four nights a week on Twitch, opening tapes live and documenting whatever’s on them.
What is the 90s Craig archive?
A physical collection of VHS tapes covering recordings from 1979 through the mid-2000s — local TV broadcasts, commercials, corporate training videos, home recordings, and mystery tapes with no labels. Every tape is digitized and documented.
What is lost media?
Lost media is any film, TV broadcast, recording, or other content that no longer exists in any known public archive — the only surviving copy is often a VHS recorded off a TV decades ago. The 90s Craig archive has confirmed lost media on dozens of tapes.