good evening. welcome to the 30th anniversary celebration of the c-span archives. i am robert browning, the director of the archives. it was 30 years ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. [laughter] robert: i have to explain what those are. they made a lot of noise as they wound and rewound. it is all digital recording. today, it is all digital recording. our original goal was to record everything on c-span, index it and make it available for public use. it is fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met , which is what our panel is about. back then, the internet as we know it today did not exist. digital recording was unknown. the cloud was something you watched in the sky. but we had a vision, a vision of what could be if we kept this material, not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy, the history of american democracy. before i turn this over to mitch daniels, we re going to look at a little video.
of social media and its impact on politics. good evening. welcome to the 30th anniversary celebration of the c-span archives. i am robert browning, the director of the archives. it was 30 years ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. [laughter] robert: i have to explain what those are. they made a lot of noise as they wound and rewound. it is all digital recording. today, it is all digital recording. our original goal was to record everything on c-span, index it and make it available for public use. it is fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met , which is what our panel is about. back then, the internet as we know it today did not exist. digital recording was unknown. the cloud was something you watched in the sky. but we had a vision, a vision of what could be if we kept this material, not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy, the history of american democracy. before i turn this over to mitch dan
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