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Memes are one of those things I'd always see online, but I never thought about archiving...until one day I did. Can't remember when I started to archive them, maybe 5 years ago. But once I started to collect them, I went back in time to find earlier ones to make up for lost time. I notice today the memes collection hit 20,971 files. Plus, I have close to 2,000 GIF files I keep separately from the memes. In the beginning I just mixed memes and GIF together. Memes take a lot of time to fool with. In the beginning I would just save any I ran across. But as I got more serious about archiving them, I spent time searching out memes. Some of the collection are just photos that are used as memes...no text needed to get a message across. Lots of creativity out there... Memes are a good record or daily of life at the time they are made. They emanate from the Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive. I used to be on Reddit, but they banned me. One of the subreddits was for archivists. A person on the forum asked if anyone collected memes. A professional archivist said that archivists usually look after collections decades after they are made...by someone else. In other words, they are hired to 'caretake' and not create. I guess it is the curator's job to create a collection, as well as caretake. No one in the group seemed to collect memes other than me. Vast majority of the meme collection are of a political nature. Since they don't like politics here, I have posted non-political memes. But probably 99.5% of the collection are political memes. I guess it is better that the political parties battle with memes instead of guns. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Besides underground films, in the film Archive I go lots of old home 16mm movies. It is fascinating stuff. Wedding Sampler 1950s D.D.Teoli Jr. A C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Not so with the VHS Archive. Can't find much VHS home movies on eBay to buy. I gather eBay does not like people selling used prerecorded video tapes due to copyright. I was wondering if they lumped all home VHS recordings in that category. I asked on the eBay forum about it. I got lots of replies, but nothing addressing my question. But I did find out being an archivist is creepy business! ...or maybe you could classify me as a creepy fossil?