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Before videotape we didn't have a way to store the analog signal sent to TVs. So studios pointed a film camera at a TV screen to record*, and then pointed a TV camera at a projector to rebroadcast it later. What are some similarly ridiculous, pragmatic hacks in modern software?
*Dealing with the fact that TV was broadcast in either 30 or 25 fps, but film was recorded in 24 fps was a major problem at the time. The end result of all of this was that California basically had worse TV for most of the 20th century.
Also the investment in videotape didn't happen because all of this was ridiculous. It happened because it was hard to develop the film fast enough for rebroadcast on the west coast, and film itself was relatively expensive.
all of software development
Not even remotely. Software today operates with effectively infinite resources and relatively few physical constraints comparatively
I can remember a time when the internal chargeback for network traffic at my employer was very high, so we decided it would be faster and cheaper to move 40Gb by dumping to tape and inter office mailing the tape. Devs were trying to use NFS. 
This is still just as bad today XD. For a sufficiently large amount of data it's cheaper to have Amazon mail you a hard drive, download an S3 bucket onto it, and mail it back to Amazon than to pay for the API calls to transfer that data to Glacier or another region
Virtualization
I mean probably someone does more or less literally this to defeat DRM
There was a streaming company that would give every consumer a hardware box with a antenna somewhere in some data center to stream tv on demand
ssh+tmux
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