YouTube Adds “Tape Mode” To Select Videos In Celebration Of Video Casette Recorder’s 57th Birthday

There isn’t much to miss about old-school VHS tapes. They are fuzzy, show static, have bad audio, and are generally difficult to navigate around — remember having to hold down the button on the VCR to rewind your favorite movies?

Perhaps the only thing about VHS tapes worth reminiscing over was the feeling of opening that giant plastic VHS cover of my favorite Disney films.

Whether you miss VHS or say prayers of thanks that they’ve become obsolete, YouTube has given us a way to relive the fuzz all over again in celebration of the 57th anniversary of the first commercial video cassette recorder, the Ampex VRX-1000.