You too can be an archaeologist!
Throwing out my VCR because even in the attic it is taking up too much space. Checking the two unmarked tapes I still had to see if they contained family mementos. No luck. Instead the tapes contained Dumb and Dumber and an episode of Ally McBeal.
I guess that was the broadband watershed. Or maybe the time that hard disks were large enough to store video. Or Bram Cohen had perhaps invented Bittorrent around then.