VHS tapes…  
Those were the days

From my experience, they went out of popular style by 2003 or so.  
I still use them, mostly because I like the aesthetics of the early 80s VCRs and I can get movies on a physical format for 50 cents to a $1.50.  
Protip: Don’t watch VHS on a non CRT television. It will be more blurred than usual because of scaling.

ah VHS tapes ^^  
oh the good ol days

@Fuzzyhead12  
nah, i mean… VHS tapes were still common in ‘95 and the following years. actually, i don’t remember when they stopped being a thing. around the turn of the millennium when DVD players became more affordable for many people?

@Background Pony #B6F0
 
“From 95 or younger” not earlier^^  
or i should rephrase it as from 95 or later

@Fuzzyhead12  
wrong number, i’m from 1993 and remember these things damn well. still have some lying around somewhere. and a 25 year old CRT TV that still works fine. can’t get that longevity today

for the kids, from 95 or younger, this is a cassette, a medium to save moving pictures in 25fps, by 50hz.
 
The data was stored on a little plastic stripe, covered in a magnetical metall, these were trnslated with a special device called cassette recorder, it read the magnetical loaded particels on the tape and sended the singlnal to a TV, in that time a TV wasnt a 62” 3d UHD tft or lcd TV, no it was a commonly a 25-30” big ass cube, filled with a braunsche tube, that shot X-rays (loaded particels) throught a vacum, on a special covoered glass screen, the particels got moved by electromagnets to their right position.
 
creating a dot on the screen. the resolution was nothing compared to today.