But VHS protection goes beyond that. As Johnson points out, “We may not have the perspective right now to know what is worthy of preservation. Something like a training video for a fast-food corporation may seem completely without value but it could be an important way to analyse who we are and how we perceived ourselves as a culture at a particular time. So it’s imperative that we don’t treat videotape as garbage, because if we do a piece of our shared history is going to vanish.”