Magnetic tape recordings that store both audio and moving images, or the physical cassettes containing this tape.
From 'video' (Latin 'videre' to see) + 'tape' (from Old English 'tæppa,' a woven strip). Videotape technology emerged in the 1950s, combining recorded sight and sound.
Videotape was revolutionary because it was the first recording medium that could capture moving images, and now we mostly use that word for a technology most people have never physically seen—like calling something 'horseless carriage' today!
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