BANDWIDTH BUSTER FOR FEBRUARY 2. We're going to give you a chance to get into shape and make sure you've got what it takes. If you wash out, it's cool, we've got plenty of GIFs for you to download (gifcities.org). Ready? Ready.
Let's start with a light jog: The entire run of COMPUTER CHRONICLES (1983-2002), a priceless set of computer history - it was a 30 minute computer TV show that walked people through the shank of a lot of amazing technology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_… 
The episodes on the Internet Archive are MPEG-2 files pulled from the original master tapes, held by Stewart Cheifet, and are each over a gigabyte in size. Some of them are shorter segments in the collection, so we're only talking a few hundred gigs here.
The command to download all of COMPUTER CHRONICLES is here:
ia download --search=collection:computerchronicles --format=MPEG2
Add --no-directories if you want to just put all the MPEG files in one big directory, instead of 559 subdirectories.
ia download --search=collection:computerchronicles --format=MPEG2
Add --no-directories if you want to just put all the MPEG files in one big directory, instead of 559 subdirectories.
If you just want to watch them online, or walk the collection before you download (but you really should trust me, it's fantastic), you can visit the collection here: archive.org/details/comput…
