YouTube | How It All Started
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The early 2000s were an experimental but very innovative time for the internet. Millions of users and brilliant thinkers around the world were seemingly doing the impossible while also facing technological obstacle after obstacle, with this including the concept of widespread digital video.
However, through a series of unrelated historical events, the introduction of new online technologies, and the synergy of three knowledgeable and creative PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were able to find the solution in 2005 with their new website: UA-cam.
Initially a failed dating website, the development of UA-cam was by no means a cakewalk, but rather a journey filled with trial and error, competition, legal battles that would manifest later down the line, and even some tension between the creators themselves.
This is the first installment of a new series covering the history of UA-cam.
Zackary Smigel is helping me on this series. Check out his channel here!
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Check out the UA-cam History playlist here! (Watch in chronological order for the ultimate experience): • UA-cam History (Series)
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FIRST!!!!!
Wow what a great sponsor
@@Brughmangyeah your mon is indeed a great sponsor
:O
My mother watches the same videos as me...Greeeaaaattt.
If you're doing a history of UA-cam, please, please make a video about UA-cam Streams. It was a chatroom feature on the site from around 2008, that was way ahead of its time, allowing content creators to chat with subscribers/friendslist, share videos, etc. It was the predecessor to stuff like Twitch or Discord, but UA-cam nuked it as it was getting really popular. You can only find a few videos showing the topic these days, as it's all been muted out by 'livestreaming' or 'streaming services' instead. I would love to see this topic get covered, so younger generations can see what they missed out on in the early UA-cam days.
Anyone remember annotations?
@@slightlyevolved Was an innovative feature, but also led to so much spam in videos.
Video responses were amongst my favorite things to exist, especially during the peak of the RayWilliamJohnson era between 2009-2011.
holy shit, i thought everyone forgot about this. i can’t find any record of it online.
Imagine being all hyped up for this new site - UA-cam, - it turns nothing like you expected but you are now a part of history.
How the hell were you here when it was uploaded 1 hour ago
@@internet_userr livestream! i unfortunately couldn't be a part of it though
i saw you on some short a few days ago and now youre here
And imagine if you uploaded any random videos on YT in 2005, and 15 years later you noticed that your videos starting to get millions of views every week
@@groovydominoes52 who watches shorts lol.. pls get help
Just finished! That was great and I'm excited for more parts to UA-cam History!
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And don't call me Shirley. As soon as I thought about it, you said it. 5 stars to you.
UA-cam was a big change in the internet age. UA-cam is such a common part of life now that for alot of ppl its always been there. it's kinda hard to imagine how things would be if it didn't exist.
It's not hard to imagine at all. I first came to this site in December 2005 and made an account a few months later. The internet didn't suddenly change because UA-cam existed. You're feeding into the perception of UA-cam in the monetization era. It's only hard to imagine if you're from Generation Z or you're a millennial who didn't use the internet or were internet illiterate in the 2000s.
Great video, Shirley. I look forward to the next installment.
This series is already so fire
I can’t wonder if UA-cam was like this now
13:03 RIP vine
lmao i love that collaboration part
As usual the face of the narrator I’ve been listening to matches absolutely nothing with what my mind had imagined. This happened to me every time a face reveal if someone who inly had a voice initially .
Yes
congrats on being first
Here in first hour (ps, cant wait for video, sure it will be great as allways 😁)
I miss the old generation 😭 bring me back!!!! When I see this old version of all of these things reminds me when I was younger 😢 I hate this generation now. But it's nice how they grew! I remembered that kind of yt theme on the site
if youtube was still a dating site they would’ve probably deleted the feature to dislike someone’s profile 💀
and the option to swipe left or right. You'd just have to date whoever the algorithm told you to. Like Hinge.
My classmates and me uploaded our first video back in 2005 when we heard about UA-cam. We made a really goofy irl Spiderman movie of about 8 min. Took us a whole day to upload. Only one of my classmates had sufficient bandwidth and a limitless contract with his isp at home. So we used his connection and his account to upload this. Unfortunately he deleted his account some years later when we finished school and all got out of touch. Man I would pay real money to see our video again, good times.
Sounds cool, I wonder if the website is still up today
Watching this on UA-cam, I am very glad it wasn't a dating site.
I'm so excited for this new series!
The first UA-cam video I remember watching was some random two minutes user song, But it wasn't actual music at all.
Excited for the series!
Stuff like this happens and you tell me the butterfly effect doesn't exist.
I can't wait to see the next video in the series
Loving this new series!
Can’t believe now UA-cam used FLASH video when it started! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Dear Shirley.Great vid.
I remember when I meet my first girlfriend on UA-cam does were the good old times, very nostalgic indeed..
Met my wife on xanga lol. Good ole days
My dad was also born in 1955, and buddy, he ain't no Steve Jobs. There's a lot more going on here :P
Presumably Jawed's account would have been banned if he had used UA-cam as what he intended to make
SPOILER: the next episode is gonna be about Machinima
Right, a "wardrobe malfunction".... Right....
Please do a part 2.
This is going to be an entire series!
Some couples actually met over UA-cam, so it's not entirely failed at its objective as a dating site.
UA-cam is trash
youtube vidoes is garbage
dvd music cd and blu-ray is so much better then garbage youtube playing music on youtube is trash youtube videos are garbage movie discs are better
late 2000s is trash UA-cam is garbage
90s ealry 2000s is better
movies is better then garbage youtube vieos
17:08 Man, I hate how this phrase is ruined by the internet. 😂
Sad but kinda true now I think of it lol
i'm here for it
I remember watching as Justin ripped off Janet’s bra. That was a def shock lol
UA-cam is trash
youtube vidoes is garbage
dvd music cd and blu-ray is so much better then garbage youtube playing music on youtube is trash youtube videos are garbage movie discs are better
late 2000s is trash UA-cam is garbage
90s ealry 2000s is better
movies is better then garbage youtube vieos
I am a big fan!!!
Am I late bc I waited 'till 10 or am I early bc I came before it started..?
Also I'm excited! Have a good day/night!
OMG I remember StupidVideos 🤣
Surely you cant be serious ❤
Wait a sec....Jared Kawim...
Hello there! :D
I can't believe he let some wacky guy with a greenscreen take over his channel for 3 minutes and 34 seconds. I am shocked!
Me too!
your section was cool and interesting, well done :)
@@Skuu Thanks so much!
i like ur section, just that u shoulda reworded that "age is just a number" part
Your part of the video was a great addition to the content!! Nice job.
If you think about it, it's really crazy that UA-cam is older than some users.
Not just some, a very large amount of users. Every person under 18 and even some who are 18
Crazt how time works 🤯
@@evan2623found the child
@@minoena How?
Yes from failed Dating site in 2005 to a late 2000's version Tik Tok and now TV.
I completely agree with Gladwell, and I think it extends to pop culture. As Walter Cronkite once said, had Star Wars been a year early, it would've been another Buck Rogers, too late, and it wouldn't have captured the imagination. It came out at the precise time after Vietnam and Watergate when movies were downbeat and negative. I think some people and projects strike gold, not necessarily because they're the best or smartest, or most innovative, but the timing was just too perfect.
REAL ‼️
literal magic that is time!
So many shows that would have been popular if released at a different timr
Not enough people talk about timing! It's such a key factor in success stories sometimes.
animal crossing: new horizons reminds me of this principle since it definitely wouldn’t be the second bestselling switch game without the pandemic (also, star wars mentioned !!)
I remember the first time I saw UA-cam. It was early into my first semester in college. I was working in a computer lab and looked over at my friends monitor. He was watching Naruto. I thought something like “video playing on a web browser?” Kind of blew my mind. I asked him the name of the website and typed it in. Originally thought it was specifically made for anime. Was surprised that there was a bunch of random stuff on it. Ah yes, and no ads. It was a magical time.
Now unless you pay them every month, you get ads even on SONGS.
Adblock Plus exists, but it only works in the browser.
fun fact: I never ever see ads on UA-cam. Unless I have vpn turned on. Reason? based in Sudan.
@@mobbs8229happens to me too, it's normal
@@matildalitsey143 ublock origin ftw
finally someone who acknowledges the super bowl incident as one of the contributing factors to the creation of youtube. janet DID get a lot of shit for something that was NOT in fact her fault. 🤦
I always found that stupid. Why did Janet get so much flack for that? It truly wasnt her fault yet everyone went to give her backlash? Then again, I'd be the kind of person to brush that kind of event off even if I saw it live. It just seems so whatever to me. In fact that's not even how I found out who Janet was. I found out who she was cause she sampled Sonic 1's Bridge Zone music. Funky.
What i think makes UA-cam so unique is the fact that it wasn't mainstream. Nothing required your content to have mass appeal. Want to make a video about cheesemaking? Sure, go ahead. Might take you a while, but you'll find people who enjoy it.
Holy cow that face reveal… I saw you lips moving with the audio and I was like “wow that’s pretty good how you said it exactly like that guy” and then I realized-
3:58 "welcome to UA-cam history"
UA-cam: "here, have this yt premium ad cuz we have an excellent timing"
I was a freshman in college when UA-cam came out. I had a web server that I'd upload videos to and send the links to friends, saying "why would someone want to watch a video, and not have a permanent copy in their archive?". Well obviously most people didn't care. But I still use software to archive many of the UA-cam videos I watch.
There's nothing more troubling than the media you remember one way, being edited into something else. When you've got the file, you've got an unchanging reference.
Yeah, I learned that lesson the other day. I was looking for a TF2 SFM, found it, but then realized it was edited due to a copyright strike. I thankfully managed to find it on Reddit.
4:42 I am so happy more people are aware of that video guide. It's the most 90's thing ever.
UA-cam lore???
Jokes aside, this was amazing. I never knew this stuff. mad respect
Just one thing: it seems pretty clear at this point that there was no Janet Jackson slipup. And people could tell once they got uncensored versions of the video. Jackson clearly had her nipples covered up, ready to be shown.
And, of course, Timberlake was in on it, yet never got the backlash that Jackson did.
Great job, Shirley- I mean NationSquid! ;) I can't wait to see what the rest of this series holds!
I hope you talk about one of the big reasons (i would argue the main reason) why UA-cam blew up - piracy. In the early years of UA-cam, it was insanely easy to binge-watch a TV show or watch a music video recorded from MTV2.
With Google that's when yt became like tv
12:42 - ChatGPT came out after OpenAI initially released their invite-only API. The reason you got so many AI apps at the time was developers playing with the very same API (GPT-3 (also Dall-e for image generation)) that powers ChatGPT - ChatGPT is just more of an official free user-friendly sandbox frontend for that API.
i love how you recreate the way someone viewed the internet back then
Fr
So nostálgic seeing the look of UA-cam back in 2005. Simpler times😢
You joined 16 years ago not 19
Still og so respect
@@romanempirelolfn I created an account in 2008 but I was already using the page in 2005
UA-cam is trash
youtube vidoes is garbage
dvd music cd and blu-ray is so much better then garbage youtube playing music on youtube is trash youtube videos are garbage movie discs are better
late 2000s is trash UA-cam is garbage
90s ealry 2000s is better
movies is better then garbage youtube vieos
Some people don't have their original account from back then.@@romanempirelolfn
This is gonna be an awesome series. Cant WAIT to see how it goes!
yes
Man, I *love* the work that you put into these videos!
cant believe youtube was made so that the owners could share cat videos
Yeah
Let’s use it for its intended purpose.
Being an early adopter of broadband in like 02 or 03 was so amazing. Was like a dream in comparison to AOL 2 and 3.0 on 56k, which was my introduction to the internet as a kiddo.
I got a cable modem in 1998 (beta tester for my area). 384up/128kbps down. I. WAS. SPEED. It also stayed at $35/mo for most of the 2000's, even after the speeds had been bumped multiple times to 10/1Mbps.
I find it absolutely fascinating that cat videos are essential in UA-cam's original roots.
I like so much the way you narrate, thank you so much for your videos. You have an underrated channel.
When I first discovered UA-cam, I was still on dial-up internet and the videos buffered so much I tended to avoid the site.
Noob
It's sad kids these days will never experience the golden age of UA-cam.
I was there and I STILL don't remember any of this!! But I'm thankful for creators like this that can allow me to remember what I went through!! 🤔🤔
UA-cam is trash
youtube vidoes is garbage
dvd music cd and blu-ray is so much better then garbage youtube playing music on youtube is trash youtube videos are garbage movie discs are better
late 2000s is trash UA-cam is garbage
90s ealry 2000s is better
movies is better then garbage youtube vieos
the tsunami videos i’d watch on youtube as a child gave me a tsunami phobia and i’m 25 with a fear of the ocean now 💀💀
My first interaction with UA-cam was back in 2005 in a middle school computer lap watching funny videos with 10 other people standing behind me. I really do miss early UA-cam when it was the wild west still. It was ruined for me around 2014 or 2015 when ads started appearing all of a sudden and channels became more professional
UA-cam back then: Broadcast yourself. Right here on UA-cam!
UA-cam nowadays: Tube.
I mean… I'm not wrong. Right?
they should bring back 5 stars
Claim your “I was here in the first hour” pass
Claimed.
Me too.
me too
Claimed! :D
Claimed
You said Leo Laporte's last name wrong lol it's pronounced "la port". Fun fact, I was on his Call for Help segment.
I was going to say this, yeah it's not lapaotie
8:07 It WAS literally the same exact thing. The layouts of it in July 2005 and Flickr logged in July 2005 are SCARILY similar.
17:09 my uncle also told me age is just a number what a coincidence
UA-cam opened a lot of opportunities for online videos on the web and it also gave lots of opportunities to a lot of people in a lot of different ways on platform. We've came so far in technology for almost 20 years of youtube's existence and among other technological improvements and growth over the years. Now we as the people who helped fuel the foundation of the video streaming concept at the beginning of youtube's existence spreading like wildfire, we look back at it and recognize that we made history that shaped to what youtube is today along with the technology improvements that eventually came into fruition over the years.
It amazes me how much we evolved and changed over the span of the glory days for youtube that it was once was.
I was born in the early 2000s, so I don’t know much about it. But I do remember when I was little I experienced the “Technological Explosion” and technology around me went from slow and boring to insanely fast and diverse. Sadly, I still have an iPhone 11, and we decided to keep the disc player and Cassette tape player. I do have an Apple TV, an Android TV, and an Xbox. :)
14:26 you should work with Gubby, he’s good!
I remember when I first discovered UA-cam, I think it was sometime in 2006. I'd spend hours watching UA-cam Poops and Warrior cats videos. It's been a wild ride, and I'm im looking forward to seeing you cover it!
Warrior Cats. Amazing series.
Was anyone else surprised by how conventionally attractive NationSquid is?
UA-cam without ads and clickbait trash was amazing. Makes me nostalgic
This is gonna be great
Also remember when Viacom tried to buy UA-cam?
"Let's just say, a wardrobe malfunction happened." You mean the incident that spawned the phrase "wardrobe malfunction"? 👀
Anyone remember google video? Is there a way to access that backlog again?
Hey @NationSquid take your time your dont have to work yourself so much, take breaks and always keep ur health in check, i love your videos and ill see u next one!
UA-cam claiming the monopoly in video sharing before it even left beta is insane
Right idea that worked at the right time. Crazy how fast it took off.
3:51 "Absolutely not, and don't call me Shirley."
I freaking love that reference, man. Airplane! is such a classic.
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Ironic that the video sharing site that was created with the idea of providing easy access to otherwise censored video content is now a unapologetic sponsor anf practitioner of censoring video content.
Are you talking about how they censor the propaganda that's causing people to try to unalive everyone, or are you talking about swears
"a time when many people were even still using dial-up" bro i remember those ads with the tortoises, it was still enough of a thing in like 07 to warrant ads saying "hey r u using dsl? you are? loser. use our service". hell remember when having an unlimited number of texts was a selling point? like, in america, in ads targeted towards at least sort of well off people???
Ah yes, the UA-cam community. What a simple time when UA-cam put the emphasis on community and fun rather than just profits and censorship.
UA-cam is trash
youtube vidoes is garbage
dvd music cd and blu-ray is so much better then garbage youtube playing music on youtube is trash youtube videos are garbage movie discs are better
late 2000s is trash UA-cam is garbage
90s ealry 2000s is better
movies is better then garbage youtube vieos
The early days of youtube was pretty cool to experience looking back really. So many random videos just made for fun.
Alot of young ppl don't even know not wasn't made by Google now.
you tube was great at first and if they hadnt started banning videos and let ALL content be shared , espite laguage , nudity, or opinion it would be better , not its just homogenized for the masses
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my UA-cam channel 8 months ago about self development. Now I have 1,096 subs and > 900 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.
UA-cam is trash
youtube vidoes is garbage
dvd music cd and blu-ray is so much better then garbage youtube playing music on youtube is trash youtube videos are garbage movie discs are better
late 2000s is trash UA-cam is garbage
90s ealry 2000s is better
movies is better then garbage youtube vieos
In my first apartment in Sweden, I had 100/100 broadband connection in 2005.
Remember when we used to customize our UA-cam pages with CSS? Yeah, me too. :(
Can we bring back the customizable pages again 😩
I miss when you could down vote stupid comments into oblivion
at school so many ppl would be watching those dbz AMVs and stuff in the early days. Ask a ninja, will it blend, early smash. So many random things.
I remember using yahoo video before youtube. Smosh original videos like pokemon and mortal kombat themes were pretty popular and cool when 1st seen.