It has been suggested numerous times, but the BBC didn’t just record over the top - the tapes were erased with a degausser before reuse.

You're correct but as Uvix has said, BBC Enterprises made film copies for overseas sales before the original tapes were erased.

The earliest episode to survive on its original videotape is Ambassadors of Death episode 1 from 1970. None of the original 60s tapes still survive, though I believe there is at least one tape that we know used to have Doctor Who on it but which now has another programme.

The earliest episode to survive in its original medium is possibly The Dalek Invasion of Earth episode 5 (The Waking Ally). That's because, while this was shot on electronic studio cameras as usual, there were no videotape machines available to record.

Instead the output of those cameras was telerecorded straight to 35mm film. AIUI the negative of that telerecording still exists.

It’s easy enough to say “put the zip first because that will tell you city, state and country in one input”.

What happens to customers not in the United States? They have no zip to enter. Or if they have a postal code of some stripe, it has a different format.

What about folks who are in Turkmenistan, that you’re grumpy about having to scroll past? How are they signing up?

Possibly! The tool was definitely named Atlas when it was going to be an open source tool made by 280 North [1]. But it could have been renamed Ninja after Moto acquired it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/03/atlas-a-visual-ide-f...

Yes, after which they announced they were canning their "Atlas" project, which was meant to be an Interface Builder for the web. Motorola decided they wanted to keep the technology in house.

No idea if they ever did anything with it!