The lava kept coming, eventually melting the outside of the camera, but the thing kept recording, and somehow the video survived on the device's SD card.
People in different locations began to keep records, and in the mid-nineteenth century, the invention of the telegraph made it possible for these records to be collated.
Also, in class we regularly had speed-reading tasks to do, and we kept a record of our reading speed, so the teachers were encouraging us to work on that.