Earliest Recording of the word "F*ck" (1885)

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  • Опубліковано 16 вер 2018
  • In 1885, a technician at Volta laboratories accidentally recorded his reaction to a mechanical failure.
    Source: www.firstsounds.org/sounds/volta/

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  • @oldfilmsandstuff4679
    @oldfilmsandstuff4679  Рік тому +5376

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    The original soundtrack for this film is missing so I added a piece of music that share's it's title.

    • @carlbroker
      @carlbroker 10 місяців тому +20

      page is ded

    • @oldfilmsandstuff4679
      @oldfilmsandstuff4679  10 місяців тому +85

      @@carlbroker Thanks for letting me know, it should be sorted now.

    • @aeyde
      @aeyde 10 місяців тому +7

      no

    • @carlbroker
      @carlbroker 10 місяців тому

      works @@oldfilmsandstuff4679

    • @kormannn1
      @kormannn1 10 місяців тому +10

      How am I supposed to know if this recording is not made up?

  • @shanshansan
    @shanshansan 8 місяців тому +6400

    "Oh fuck..." *fires a pulse laser* "Mary had a little lamb"

    • @PsychoBenches
      @PsychoBenches 6 місяців тому +130

      Rick Sanchez had to kill a clone really quick

    • @dragonbutt
      @dragonbutt 6 місяців тому +112

      Pesky time travelers trying to interrupt him

    • @ghbdealer
      @ghbdealer 6 місяців тому +26

      How is this for height?

    • @Justanotherpokespepfp
      @Justanotherpokespepfp 6 місяців тому +22

      he was laughing, the device just couldn't read it.

    • @MISCHIEFISMID
      @MISCHIEFISMID 6 місяців тому +13

      @@Justanotherpokespepfp 🤓

  • @BintangGMoeller
    @BintangGMoeller Рік тому +5162

    It’s so weird hearing someone say the actual date 1885 while actually being in 1885

    • @bennoakes2477
      @bennoakes2477 10 місяців тому +108

      Doc and Marty said it often.

    • @orion7741
      @orion7741 10 місяців тому +175

      its not weird at all. is standard practice when documenting scientific experiments and your findings. you ALWAYS say/write what the current date is so that records will be accurate for future refrencing.

    • @BintangGMoeller
      @BintangGMoeller 10 місяців тому +658

      @@orion7741 no, im aware of that. But the fact that we are listening to someone regard 1885 as “right now” is kinda crazy to me, probably because we’re used to hearing about these dates in a historical context.

    • @Hothenrik
      @Hothenrik 10 місяців тому +6

      @@BintangGMoellerif you believe this is real you are delusional😆

    • @CharaTF2
      @CharaTF2 10 місяців тому +128

      @@Hothenrik Hm? How so?

  • @blitzkriegbrigadier
    @blitzkriegbrigadier 10 місяців тому +981

    "oh fuck" *gets shot by a laser*

  • @jackmurray1466
    @jackmurray1466 10 місяців тому +431

    "my mic isnt that bad" bros mic:

  • @baberkhan3706
    @baberkhan3706 5 років тому +15271

    It even has the appropriate sound effect to follow.

  • @noeffort1565
    @noeffort1565 4 роки тому +47689

    I still remember laughing with the boys to this back in 1885

    • @si7037
      @si7037 2 роки тому +150

      @@WackyIndividual ikr

    • @internetuser5286
      @internetuser5286 2 роки тому +238

      First viral telegram it was!

    • @raedewav
      @raedewav 2 роки тому +35

      @Charlie King Ofc they are. Why is there always someone so oblivious to satire in the comments

    • @raedewav
      @raedewav 2 роки тому +9

      @Charlie King no it wasn't. The answer was blatantly obvious.

    • @raedewav
      @raedewav 2 роки тому +3

      @Charlie King dude wtf, chill. Why are u getting all sociopolitical? Its a fucking joke. Just stfu about conservatives, racism and misogyny. These kinda comments make me lose faith in humanity. Speak about racism and misogyny when and where it is actually needed, not a random UA-cam comment, if u have such critical opinions. Pfft

  • @JonSudano
    @JonSudano 8 місяців тому +2463

    This recording predates the Spanish-American War, WW1, the airplane, the atomic bomb and the invention of penicillin.

    • @GCAAGENCY483
      @GCAAGENCY483 6 місяців тому +14

      are you jesus

    • @Cloaker86
      @Cloaker86 6 місяців тому +28

      and it still sounds better than modern phones

    • @danielkokal8819
      @danielkokal8819 6 місяців тому +85

      @@Cloaker86 sounds like the Wendy's drive thru

    • @Cloaker86
      @Cloaker86 6 місяців тому +3

      @@danielkokal8819 lmao yeah

    • @CrazyGuyoftheWest
      @CrazyGuyoftheWest 6 місяців тому +17

      not the invention of penicillin, merely its synthetization.

  • @jrt2792
    @jrt2792 10 місяців тому +615

    For those are skeptical since the guy in the audio said the year, it's standard for people to put dates on their projects, just like how it's standard for you to sign the date for anything nowadays.

    • @itchiegames
      @itchiegames 4 місяці тому +5

      nah its just 100% fake clip that was recorded in the past few years. but it did fool a lot of clowns.

    • @JesusChristTheHoly
      @JesusChristTheHoly 4 місяці тому +29

      @@itchiegamesSource

    • @TylerTMG
      @TylerTMG 4 місяці тому

      ​@@itchiegamesmate use google

    • @dredwick
      @dredwick 4 місяці тому +4

      And George Washington chopped down a cherry tree because he couldn't lie.

    • @reginaldharold8505
      @reginaldharold8505 4 місяці тому +5

      @@itchiegames source

  • @sarpsarp8987
    @sarpsarp8987 Рік тому +9547

    Only 80s kids will remember this

    • @Plasmax17
      @Plasmax17 10 місяців тому +282

      1880s

    • @Gagon32
      @Gagon32 10 місяців тому +621

      stop ruining the joke@@Plasmax17

    • @attackofthegamerz1
      @attackofthegamerz1 10 місяців тому +64

      You sir just won the Internet XD

    • @jeremytitus9519
      @jeremytitus9519 10 місяців тому +25

      @@Gagon32he’s addicted to MAYHEM

    • @djungleskog2207
      @djungleskog2207 10 місяців тому +27

      @@attackofthegamerz1yep ur going on the list 😂

  • @alejandromedina4597
    @alejandromedina4597 4 роки тому +18353

    Fun Fact: UA-cam demonetized this record back then in 1885.

    • @NonTwinBrothers
      @NonTwinBrothers 4 роки тому +20

      Who could forget UA-cam in 1911?? ua-cam.com/video/CNm8ZCJ7Fx8/v-deo.html

    • @ZealanTanner
      @ZealanTanner 4 роки тому +58

      NonTwinBrothers a classic

    • @FrnsZlz
      @FrnsZlz 3 роки тому +70

      @HOSAM Alzahrani u missed the joke

    • @justinhyslop8769
      @justinhyslop8769 3 роки тому +9

      @HOSAM Alzahrani oh fuck

    • @UNIT5FAN
      @UNIT5FAN 3 роки тому +44

      @HOSAM Alzahrani You can't call someone a idiot when you don't speak english smh.

  • @Blaze5x5x5
    @Blaze5x5x5 10 місяців тому +74

    Lmao imagine flubbing your line, mistakenly swearing, and 138 years later, your mistake ends up as a historical record.

  • @_sim0nn637
    @_sim0nn637 10 місяців тому +331

    I don't understand how people can desipher audio like this, big props.

    • @Cloaker86
      @Cloaker86 6 місяців тому +10

      i can still make out the audio

    • @bleachno9
      @bleachno9 6 місяців тому +10

      peer review and comparison

    • @nareik8017
      @nareik8017 3 місяці тому +18

      Additional reasons include but are not limited to: the recording degrading with age, meaning it was understandable a century ago. Everything that was said being written down, for later comparison to the audio recording.

    • @_sim0nn637
      @_sim0nn637 3 місяці тому +1

      @@nareik8017 ohh shit i didn't know that, thanks

    • @minners71
      @minners71 3 місяці тому +3

      I can't decipher how in this day and age of spell check people still can't spell decipher?

  • @burgermuncherMerica
    @burgermuncherMerica Рік тому +5077

    It's so strange hearing someone actually say "in the year eighteen fifty five", like it's so strange hearing that, imagine in 200 years people hear us say, "it is the year 2023"

    • @bluesmusicandwhatnot2845
      @bluesmusicandwhatnot2845 Рік тому +435

      I honestly don’t think it would be anywhere near as special. This is particularly groundbreaking because we have little if any other type of audio recordings from this period, and it’s also an example of someone talking in a colloquial and vulgar way (if only for a split second) from that long ago. Assuming civilization as we know it doesn’t fall apart, people in 200 years will have access to well over a trillion high quality video (not just audio) recordings of things we couldn’t even dream of seeing and hearing from this time period.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 10 місяців тому +51

      ​@@bluesmusicandwhatnot2845 I don't believe that. No technology in our register will allow anything from the past to correctly be heard ro fixed. It's not like we can unburn documents.

    • @scottkronenberg
      @scottkronenberg 10 місяців тому +86

      or 2525, if anybody is still alive. 🧐

    • @ThermalLabs
      @ThermalLabs 10 місяців тому +50

      @@scottkronenberg Hey, that rhymed

    • @xeroer666
      @xeroer666 10 місяців тому +24

      @@ThermalLabs Possibly a slightly off (or PC?) reference to the song In The Year 2525.

  • @8golong826
    @8golong826 4 роки тому +7915

    Ah, yes the classic children's song.
    Mary had a little lamb
    Whose fleece was black as coal
    Everywhere that Mary went
    Oh fuck

  • @8tonystark8
    @8tonystark8 8 місяців тому +60

    How lucky were Marty and Doc to have witnessed this

  • @punchie1738
    @punchie1738 9 місяців тому +259

    I have no idea why but early audio recordings like this just gimme the chills. I find them genuinely creepy and sometimes terrifying

    • @STEIN470
      @STEIN470 9 місяців тому +59

      same here. its such a weird feeling as it shoves the fact that "time/history" exists right in my face. There's proof. I know time exists, and I think about it but you don't usually think about it and feel the realness of it all. It's scary to me, to think that we've been on earth for this long. We were actually able to create devices that record ourselves even if we are dead for hundreds and hundreds of years. A capsule of time itself, it's so amazing to me.

    • @punchie1738
      @punchie1738 9 місяців тому +36

      @@STEIN470 oh it’s not that it’s just the incredibly muffled crackly sound of the recordings that just really scares me for some reason

    • @STEIN470
      @STEIN470 9 місяців тому +26

      @@punchie1738 lol i got real deep but that too

    • @B3Band
      @B3Band 9 місяців тому

      It's because you're fucking weird. Hope that helps.

    • @CaiWilde420
      @CaiWilde420 8 місяців тому +22

      Probably cus yk the guy is long dead or something idk lol

  • @expiredcracker1757
    @expiredcracker1757 3 роки тому +37780

    he can't imagine we heard his sound 130 years later
    edit: sorry for my bad english i mean ''He can't imagine the way we are hearing his voice 130 years later''

    • @expiredcracker1757
      @expiredcracker1757 2 роки тому +103

      @flatmunch 007 at that time*

    • @The-United-States-Of-America92
      @The-United-States-Of-America92 2 роки тому +62

      @flatmunch 007 he said that meaning if we went back in time

    • @garrysmith5562
      @garrysmith5562 2 роки тому +376

      He recorded his voice so it could be heard later, i think he definitely imagined it.

    • @bob3studios
      @bob3studios 2 роки тому +82

      this recording was actually made photographically on a light sensitive glass plate. and you cant place a needle on a flat glass plate and hear something from it.

    • @expiredcracker1757
      @expiredcracker1757 2 роки тому +30

      oh i mean he cant imagine the way(online) my english is bad

  • @Fragolux
    @Fragolux Рік тому +71634

    I love stuff like this. It shows the human side of history; those people weren't flat colorless images or names with dates and deeds attached, they were people, just like us; they lived, ate, drank, fell in love, suffered, and got frustrated at machines malfunctioning and said, "Oh fuck!"

    • @RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing
      @RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing Рік тому +3313

      This changed my perspective on the past. Literally. I can hear the happiness and humor in his voice. He sounds so alive. I don't think of old pictures of black and white people anymore. I see them as humans, like us alive.

    • @bragiodinsen4604
      @bragiodinsen4604 11 місяців тому +178

      no they werent, how could you conclude that from this?

    • @L0NGG0NE766
      @L0NGG0NE766 11 місяців тому +705

      Imagine being surprised that people were still people in history

    • @jasonflay8818
      @jasonflay8818 11 місяців тому +575

      I'm an archaeologist, everyday we find things that just prove this true. A kid's handprint in adobe wall when it was wet, broken toys in what was once the wood s at that time period, a box of archaic spear points in a19th century privy, or my favorite a Clovis point broken putting the last flute down the center. I always imagined the maker after spending 20/30 minutes making this beautiful blade shaping it to be symmetrical for even flight about ready to put the last flake in before fitting it to a spear shaft....... And snapping it in half, muttering the paleoindian word for fuck and throwing it as far from where they were sitting as possible. There is no sign on that point they tried making that into any other tool which was common just said to hell with it. I wood work in my spare time....... I may have done that a time or two. Spend hours cutting, sanding about ready to stain it AAAaaand something happens. Across my yard it goes!

    • @joeydigrado382
      @joeydigrado382 11 місяців тому +171

      ​​@@L0NGG0NE766I know right.. it's weird to me for someone to even think that. Even when I was younger, I'd try to imagine every old picture/video in color because I guess i knew that the past wasn't any different than ours visually. And that people were indeed just people like us just with different technologies/clothes etc.

  • @staticunlawful7315
    @staticunlawful7315 10 місяців тому +159

    It’s great to have stuff like this that gives us the human aspect of history. The way we learn history is so dull and it makes it hard to not think of history as a distant universe full of names until you really think about the peoples lives and try to think about what it would’ve been like to be there.

  • @hellagia2151
    @hellagia2151 10 місяців тому +39

    This has given me an absolutely absurd amount of joy. Mister Sumner Tainter: you, your awesome last name, and your wonderful recorded curse, are my favorite things right now.
    (I’ve watched this like fifteen times now.)

    • @missiondemolition
      @missiondemolition 4 місяці тому +1

      I think it was actually Harry G. Rogers who recorded it. On the website listed, there are some other Volta Laboratories recordings from H.G. Rogers who had the same voice.

  • @ADAM96667
    @ADAM96667 3 роки тому +10147

    I like how "Oh fuck" is the clearest bit of audio in the entire recording.

    • @kanalname5996
      @kanalname5996 Рік тому +603

      I think our ears are just trained well to recognize this one word

    • @Kettvnen
      @Kettvnen Рік тому +345

      it wasnt

    • @happinesssuccess722
      @happinesssuccess722 Рік тому +98

      He moved away a bit from the recording when he said it.

    • @thewafflegamer6152
      @thewafflegamer6152 Рік тому +68

      *when your mistakes are the most clear:*

    • @AmiciCherno
      @AmiciCherno 11 місяців тому +198

      It really wasn’t, people just hear what they want to. Subtitle a muffled sound that seems convincing and everyone will believe it’s what the subtitle says.

  • @tayzonday
    @tayzonday 10 місяців тому +16487

    See? I should NOT have gotten in trouble in grade school! I was just being historic.

    • @FluffiiGhost
      @FluffiiGhost 10 місяців тому +271

      Is that chocolate rain?
      In the flesh!?!?

    • @Everything_60
      @Everything_60 10 місяців тому +84

      Yoooo legend

    • @XxWillScarletSoundxX
      @XxWillScarletSoundxX 10 місяців тому +32

      Hey, Tay Zonday! I still remember seeing Chocolate Rain the first time in 2010 :D

    • @killingmewillnotbringbacky9177
      @killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 10 місяців тому +127

      Man it must be a pain in the ass for this guy's notifications to all be "IT'S CHOCOLATE RAIN!" every time he makes a comment.

    • @MolternK
      @MolternK 10 місяців тому +6

      I love you Tay!

  • @yourstruly2354
    @yourstruly2354 4 місяці тому +93

    It's been exactly 139 years since this recording.
    UA-cam recommended this to me on the 11th of march of 2024.

  • @gobblegobble239
    @gobblegobble239 10 місяців тому +52

    120+ years later and this song still slaps.

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 місяці тому

      Just as the 80s are somehow not 20-something years ago anymore, the 1880s aren't still 120-something years ago any more. Time flies brother, half of the 80s is 40 or more years ago now!

  • @katiemartin6991
    @katiemartin6991 Рік тому +15274

    Iconic that the first dude to ever say the word "fuck" on record literally had the word "taint" in his name, meaning this is technically the first recording of both words.

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties Рік тому +1

      taint nothin but a lil fuckup

    • @imamulmalikchowdhury7659
      @imamulmalikchowdhury7659 11 місяців тому +560

      andrew taint

    • @theultimatebro9278
      @theultimatebro9278 11 місяців тому +358

      Perhaps not if this isn't Mr taints first recordings

    • @s8wc3
      @s8wc3 10 місяців тому +50

      You cant have taint without balls so it doesn't count

    • @n646n
      @n646n 10 місяців тому +59

      @@s8wc3 Ever heard of neutering?

  • @Camlling
    @Camlling 10 місяців тому +24425

    I love how listening to someone 140 years ago for us is absolutely crazy. But in a few hundred years the time between the first recording of human voice and the high quality mics of today is going to seem like a blink in history.
    History teacher in 2600: “here’s a recording from 600 years ago” *perfectly audible* “now here’s one from 700 years ago” *barely able to make out sentences*

    • @moosey7165
      @moosey7165 10 місяців тому +2658

      Same with computers, "here is CGI from 1990 *plasic-y textureless mayhem* , and here it is 25 years later *photorealistic* "

    • @vadimfedenko
      @vadimfedenko 10 місяців тому +195

      AI will restore the quality, don't worry

    • @erikmkir5567
      @erikmkir5567 10 місяців тому +664

      Given the amount of media from the early internet age that is completely lost, and how quickly and easily copies degrade, I wouldn't be surprised if current records became extremely rare and hardly understandable 600 years from now.
      To say nothing of companies enforcing copyright so hard that the original recordings get destroyed and only bootleg copies survive. Like, there's tv episodes from little over a decade ago that aren't available in their original broadcast version, anywhere on earth. There are episodes or even shows that straight up don't exist anywhere anymore, in any version.
      I'm pretty sure the recording in this video was much more audible back when it was made, but time and use have degraded it. UA-cam compression has degraded it a little, and every time it gets reposted from now on it's going to get even more degraded.

    • @robyjacker
      @robyjacker 10 місяців тому +189

      @@erikmkir5567 Not to mention people make everything 10x bass boosted just for the "funny"

    • @imterry1355
      @imterry1355 10 місяців тому +42

      it will be reposted and compressed so many times.

  • @SpaltonTAG
    @SpaltonTAG 10 місяців тому +32

    This really brings back those good old memories of the 80s. Back when we left this masterpiece on replay for weeks😢😢

  • @nfullenwider
    @nfullenwider 10 місяців тому +12

    "I learned it from YOU great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandad!"

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 місяці тому +1

      Shit, everyone in your family having kids at 12? My great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandad was born c. 1720. This would be my great-grandfather's toddler days. I'm not even 20.

  • @shaderaptorwright4284
    @shaderaptorwright4284 10 місяців тому +1326

    Today I yelled “FUCK!” At a printer that was, you guessed it, being a pain in the ass.
    I feel a strange sense of kinship with this man from 1885.

    • @bloky2747
      @bloky2747 7 місяців тому +45

      139 years later, same problems

    • @kirchunetwork1986
      @kirchunetwork1986 День тому

      @@bloky2747 Did it prompt you to "Load Letter" ? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @chezzymon6074
    @chezzymon6074 10 місяців тому +899

    Its hard to imagine 137 years later phone qualities still sound like this

  • @nachosrule6985
    @nachosrule6985 4 місяці тому +8

    "It is the eleventh of March." How coincidental is it that when I finally decided to watch this was on March 11 today lmao

  • @standemain
    @standemain 9 місяців тому +8

    Thanks for posting. F'ing awesome! My only regret is that so much material like this has been lost. Silent movies destroyed for the silver nitrate. What treasures gone.

  • @umbuchscui
    @umbuchscui 4 роки тому +402

    This was 135 years ago

    • @oldfilmsandstuff4679
      @oldfilmsandstuff4679  4 роки тому +53

      135

    • @rng4612
      @rng4612 4 роки тому +63

      I bet they never thought we'd be listening to them after all these years

    • @dguy0386
      @dguy0386 3 роки тому +22

      @@rng4612 imagine you die and like 70 years later you're remembered as the guy that swore saying Mary had a little lamb that one time

    • @dguy0386
      @dguy0386 3 роки тому +10

      @@rng4612 but yeah it is pretty darn cool that we can hear recordings this old! they could've never imagined the internet or even computers considering electricity was pretty new at the time

    • @cameron8529
      @cameron8529 Рік тому +1

      @@oldfilmsandstuff4679 135

  • @BartyCrease98
    @BartyCrease98 3 роки тому +5010

    It’s crazy to think that this was recorded on huge equipment and now we can record our voice along with video with a small device we carry everyday

    • @crogamerhd3974
      @crogamerhd3974 2 роки тому +40

      No wayyyy?!?! What device is that??

    • @masterdevoe2519
      @masterdevoe2519 2 роки тому +188

      @@crogamerhd3974 You can use a tractor.

    • @thegamesbrotherssvk5135
      @thegamesbrotherssvk5135 2 роки тому +9

      @@crogamerhd3974 ommg guys i think im sus 😳

    • @MBM1117727
      @MBM1117727 2 роки тому +90

      @@crogamerhd3974 it was recorded on a cylinder phonograph so not THAT huge

    • @spaghetti_man3807
      @spaghetti_man3807 2 роки тому +28

      nah bro we can transmit it live that's even more impressive

  • @alexandrjirousek3703
    @alexandrjirousek3703 6 місяців тому +8

    Cool to see that microphones have not gotten better since then

  • @xbronzow
    @xbronzow 10 місяців тому +13

    This is so majestic this inspired me to start a family, make a business, and talk to a woman for the first time I hope others can hear this absolute masterpiece

  • @supremebean-fg5sn
    @supremebean-fg5sn 4 роки тому +707

    Hmmmm. Sounds like an average Xbox live player in a cod lobby

  • @prodbyrockyusa
    @prodbyrockyusa 10 місяців тому +149

    "dont worry man no one will hear the mistake you made of the little lamb lullaby" 138 years later:

  • @KILLERDEVIL13
    @KILLERDEVIL13 10 місяців тому +12

    Damn, understanding records at the time was some kind of epic skill.

  • @MrQuijibo
    @MrQuijibo 10 місяців тому +12

    This makes 'oh fuck' canon lyrics

  • @MarvinClarence
    @MarvinClarence 2 роки тому +1995

    Remember that even at the time, this was not the best way of recording. This recording was most likely done as an experiment, with a stylus attached to a diaphragm causing variations in the width of a narrow slit through which light was passing, creating a trace of uniform width but variable density. This was an experiment on techniques to mass-produce records.
    Of course, since the Edison phonograph was already widely available since the 1890s, I wouldn’t be surprised if someday a cylinder is found of a child recording profanities whilst his parents were not home.

    • @srleaoleonardo24
      @srleaoleonardo24 2 роки тому +93

      That would be awesome

    • @ranbooismyspiritanimal9366
      @ranbooismyspiritanimal9366 Рік тому +141

      In the description, it says "In 1885, a technician in Volta laboratories accidentally recorded his reaction to a mechanical failure".

    • @akidafloof
      @akidafloof 10 місяців тому +1

      999 likes

    • @Cloaker86
      @Cloaker86 6 місяців тому +3

      it would be hilarious to hear some kid from 130 years ago screaming bad words

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 місяці тому

      This wasn't recorded on a cylinder, this was recorded on a gramophone disk. Not experimental, more of testing out the products in the lab.

  • @regular5k
    @regular5k 3 роки тому +918

    He seems like a chill guy. Homie would’ve been one of the bros

  • @fantasticnoob2597
    @fantasticnoob2597 10 місяців тому +12

    The fact that some mics that my friends use sound worse than this

  • @kennymcormick607
    @kennymcormick607 6 місяців тому +3

    That guy literally made history with just one word.

  • @baconboiiscoolandnice
    @baconboiiscoolandnice 4 роки тому +397

    sounds like a skype call with bad internet connection

  • @DullMacheteKillCount
    @DullMacheteKillCount Рік тому +660

    I still can’t believe that a recording from 1885 can still manage to be hilarious today! This is absolute gold!

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 10 місяців тому +11

      You guys need to stop having access to phrases you don't know the meaning of. What the fuck would be odd about something from the past being funny EVEN TODAY? Even today, huhuh, like today's the dominator of what's funny.

    • @alexarnett1815
      @alexarnett1815 10 місяців тому +47

      Do you need a hug? You seem to be having some big feelings over something that’s not that deep

    • @Crimsrn
      @Crimsrn 10 місяців тому +42

      @@WitchKing-Of-Angmar it is. most humour used by people 138 years ago is stuff the average person wouldn't find funny anymore, because humour changes over time. this is an exception of that.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 10 місяців тому +2

      @@Crimsrn Humour today is ass cancer in relation.

    • @Crimsrn
      @Crimsrn 10 місяців тому +1

      @@WitchKing-Of-Angmar could you name 1 single funny joke from the 1860s?

  • @cornstarch5920
    @cornstarch5920 4 місяці тому +4

    today is March 12, which means yesterday was the 139th anniversary of this recording

  • @thephoenixsystem6765
    @thephoenixsystem6765 10 місяців тому +4

    This is so special, thank you.
    Although now I wanna hear the earliest recording of "I can't believe you've done this"

  • @mr.goodman3991
    @mr.goodman3991 2 роки тому +2033

    It is so incredible to know that people actually talked back then
    I always imagine them with nothing but text and black and grey colours

    • @EnochByrd
      @EnochByrd Рік тому +31

      Lol

    • @Griffin_63
      @Griffin_63 Рік тому +160

      Because of TV and movies, I used to think that nobody on earth ever swore before 1968 or 69.

    • @emperor-zelch1850
      @emperor-zelch1850 Рік тому +14

      Then how did george Washington

    • @emperor-zelch1850
      @emperor-zelch1850 Рік тому +5

      Say his qotes

    • @paulrutland2640
      @paulrutland2640 Рік тому +25

      @Deadfish King looking at videos on UA-cam they seem to have sounded no different to us today other than changes in accents in recent years. But the general pattern of speech was no different going back to the early 1800s at least. The trouble with literature is that it is mostly idealistic and flowery or the interpretation of an outsider so very rarely can be relied on.

  • @jabmaster1000
    @jabmaster1000 10 місяців тому +1370

    It’s insane how this recording is still somewhat audible. It’s a big reminder that if you’ve got something of somewhat importance like an old photo or an old home recording, make sure it’s in a safe spot and be very carful with it. Who knows, your VHS tape could show up on Space Channel 5 100 years from now as the last remaining working VHS

    • @Pentti_Hilkuri
      @Pentti_Hilkuri 8 місяців тому +22

      After another 140 years these analog things and cave paintings from the start of humanity will still exist and most of our the current year digital things will be gone forever.

    • @gayusschwulius8490
      @gayusschwulius8490 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Pentti_HilkuriNot optical media, though. M-Disc blurays will probably (we can't know for sure, obviously, but tests seem to indicate it) for thousands of years and even normal blurays can very likely last more than a century.

    • @MrScottyTay
      @MrScottyTay 8 місяців тому +21

      @Pentti_Hilkuri except for the fact that a lot of the analog data mediums have an expiry date. VHS tapes, audio tapes, CDs, DVDs, even Blu-Rays have an expiry date.

    • @RainyFox-ot9qn
      @RainyFox-ot9qn 7 місяців тому +2

      did you live 100 years in the future? you literally can't know that. you're assuming because it "sounds" right. ignorance makes people think they are smarter than they are.@@MrScottyTay

    • @YayaFeiLong
      @YayaFeiLong 7 місяців тому +22

      ​@@RainyFox-ot9qn ??? He's not wrong, most analog data storage devices _do_ degrade. For DVDs and Blu-Rays it really depends on what the disk is made of, but your typical DVD or Blu-Ray will last somewhere between 5-50 years. In other words, most DVDs and Blu-Rays existing in current day will _not_ be working 100 years in the future, although some will -- mostly by special manufacturing techniques but some by sheer luck.
      Source: the Canadian Conservation Institute

  • @AmazingAmbro1
    @AmazingAmbro1 4 місяці тому +3

    Today is the 139th anniversary of this recording. Dang.

  • @loney_lonely
    @loney_lonely 10 місяців тому +4

    We were like listening to another fellow dimension.

  • @OneBiasedOpinion
    @OneBiasedOpinion 10 місяців тому +286

    I legit forgot we had audio recording capabilities this early on.

    • @justsomeguy5628
      @justsomeguy5628 10 місяців тому +33

      Kinda. At the time, and for over 100 years if I'm not mistaken, there was no way to listen to this, as it was recorded as a waveform printed on to glass. This was also one of if not the earliest ever recording, at least that can be heard or reproduced in modern times. Technically, there is possibly an older set of recordings, but they have never been found or confirmed to have existed, and even if they did exist, there is a pretty good chance that they have been destroyed.

    • @marcusaskew5979
      @marcusaskew5979 10 місяців тому +16

      The first audio recording was in 1857, and it has been digitally converted, but it is pretty much inaudible.

    • @Whatever-gx3un
      @Whatever-gx3un 10 місяців тому

      Part 2
      ua-cam.com/video/6NVujZwvP3A/v-deo.html

    • @btd7664
      @btd7664 10 місяців тому +2

      legit fr fr no cap bussin

    • @MargaritaMagdalena
      @MargaritaMagdalena 9 місяців тому

      I didn't know it was possible in the 19th century.

  • @rufflechips1080
    @rufflechips1080 10 місяців тому +1582

    Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 - April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.
    Later in his career Tainter was associated with the International Graphopone Company of West Virginia, and also managed his own research and development laboratory, earning him the title: 'Father Of The Talking Machine' (i.e.: father of the phonograph).

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin 10 місяців тому +188

      I'm a little disappointed that he's not known as "Father of the Fucking Talking Machine".

    • @g00fb4llc0r3
      @g00fb4llc0r3 10 місяців тому +40

      BASED PFP

    • @rufflechips1080
      @rufflechips1080 10 місяців тому

      ty@@g00fb4llc0r3

    • @Echo-tl7wh
      @Echo-tl7wh 10 місяців тому +3

      @@g00fb4llc0r3 true

    • @softcuddlydragoness
      @softcuddlydragoness 10 місяців тому +31

      Ultra chad pfp.

  • @iamtheunseeable9022
    @iamtheunseeable9022 10 місяців тому +5

    this be every playstation party's mic quality now

  • @NolifeToby
    @NolifeToby 10 місяців тому +3

    everyone has a friend with this mic

  • @prot07ype87
    @prot07ype87 10 місяців тому +363

    *Props to this channel travelling all the way back to 1885 to record this.*

    • @UsudUsud-ly9qr
      @UsudUsud-ly9qr 10 місяців тому +2

      A funny comment

    • @fatbgmanbg975
      @fatbgmanbg975 10 місяців тому

      ​@@UsudUsud-ly9qr😂

    • @Whatever-gx3un
      @Whatever-gx3un 9 місяців тому

      Part 2
      ua-cam.com/video/wzyyTzf-rrs/v-deo.html

    • @cynthiaclarke3979
      @cynthiaclarke3979 9 місяців тому

      Marty,we got to go back to 1885 and saved the recording of Mary and her little lamb and the word..fuck..

    • @stringlarson1247
      @stringlarson1247 9 місяців тому

      And making it back home.

  • @eduardoaccorsi2803
    @eduardoaccorsi2803 Рік тому +469

    It's crazy that this recording is from 1885, have you seen photos of what the world was like in 1885? This is basically a time machine

    • @kenlieck7756
      @kenlieck7756 Рік тому

      Or a sex machine...

    • @CometMedalChavez
      @CometMedalChavez 11 місяців тому +28

      I mean, Doc Brown was there back then, you can just ask him 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @lgjhmovies
      @lgjhmovies 11 місяців тому +54

      People who say stuff like this have never been in a time machine

    • @winstonmarlowe5254
      @winstonmarlowe5254 10 місяців тому +36

      @@lgjhmovies technically correct

    • @reynaldoflores4522
      @reynaldoflores4522 10 місяців тому +9

      Yes. I have seen photos from 1885. The world was in black and white then.

  • @jasontodds
    @jasontodds 8 місяців тому +2

    some of y’all still have microphones like this in 2023

  • @chiquitathechicken
    @chiquitathechicken 4 місяці тому +2

    Well its also the eleventh of march here! its just two thousand and twenty four.

  • @TheTruthKiwi
    @TheTruthKiwi 10 місяців тому +329

    I can't help thinking of 1885 as old and stuffy with top hats and horse drawn carriages, old ornate wooden furniture and people writing with quills (The ball point pen was invented in 1888 btw). But of course for those living there and then it was just the same as us living today, in the moment. Their furniture and carriages didn't seem old fashioned because they weren't. It was literally modern times for them. How we live now will seem really old fashioned in 135 years time.

    • @mikebliss3153
      @mikebliss3153 9 місяців тому +3

      Someone gets it.

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi 9 місяців тому +1

      @@mikebliss3153 Cheers mate, appreciate it. 👍

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi 9 місяців тому

      @@gergosoos2870 you're right, I forgot about those. 😉

    • @FrenchToast663
      @FrenchToast663 9 місяців тому +2

      Very optimistic of you to think the world will exist 135 years later

    • @mikebliss3153
      @mikebliss3153 9 місяців тому +10

      @@FrenchToast663 Oh, the world will continue to exist. To paraphrase George Carlin, "The Earth will be fine. It's us who are fucked."

  • @goldensundeer1139
    @goldensundeer1139 2 роки тому +420

    As ridiculous as it sounds, this is an important peice of history. It's a reminder of how human people were, even back then.

    • @goldensundeer1139
      @goldensundeer1139 Рік тому +2

      @Elijah Jackson Wow! I had no idea. I assumed at thos time it was still new. I assume cursing was seen as taboo most of its existence which is why we think of it as a new word.

    • @orion7741
      @orion7741 10 місяців тому +3

      they did not actually use the "F" word back then. they did not say it in this recording either. you think they say it because the words on the screen, but if you close your eyes and listen, you can clearly hear for yourself that they never said anything even remotely close to the "F" word.

    • @Xenor999
      @Xenor999 10 місяців тому +1

      @@orion7741 it is close tho
      I can hear it.maybe he didn't say fuck but it was clearly similar idk for sure so I can neither confirm or deny.

    • @vapeymcvape5000
      @vapeymcvape5000 10 місяців тому +6

      @@orion7741 The word 'fuck' has been in use for centuries. Try again.

    • @connermckay4012
      @connermckay4012 9 місяців тому +4

      @@orion7741 “fuck” has been around since like the 1600s, it’s cognate with some Germanic words but slang terms tend to be hard to trace so we don’t know much more. Anyway, you’re extremely wrong. “Fuck” is as old to the people in this recording as the recording is to us.

  • @dusannestorovic5699
    @dusannestorovic5699 10 місяців тому +2

    Wait, people actually talked back then?
    I thought they just mouthed words and then everything went black for a few seconds while the words appeared in text

  • @Loapyyoutube
    @Loapyyoutube 8 місяців тому +2

    1885 and still a better mic than my teamates

  • @cunng81
    @cunng81 4 роки тому +60

    From the day of writing this (Friday, 22nd May 2020) it's been 49,830 days since this was recorded.

    • @DoomKid
      @DoomKid 2 роки тому +21

      Over 50 thousand now. Holy hell..

    • @United-Nations
      @United-Nations 2 роки тому +7

      Over 2.2 million days now

    • @joenest7769
      @joenest7769 Рік тому +7

      @@United-Nations what?

    • @AS-xj9cy
      @AS-xj9cy 10 місяців тому

      I was gonna say the date today (September 18, 2023) but I realized it's close enough to yours lmao@larsliamvilhelm

    • @gpt-jcommentbot4759
      @gpt-jcommentbot4759 10 місяців тому

      @larsliamvilhelm About 2,765,982 years since this was recorded. Man, time flies fast!

  • @avocados31
    @avocados31 4 роки тому +77

    Me at 9 pm:ok one more video
    Me at 3 am: * listens to Earliest recording of f**k *

  • @logann7942
    @logann7942 8 місяців тому +2

    This was during the period in history where the only thing allowed to be recorded was “Mary had a Little Lamb.”

  • @IS_CBR_2763
    @IS_CBR_2763 5 місяців тому +2

    Fun fact: that black spot on the record on the photo is where it went wrong, which prompted him to say the f word

  • @srbarkerchan
    @srbarkerchan 3 роки тому +199

    Samuel L. Jackson is proud of this piece of history.

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 11 місяців тому +15

      "I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing!"

    • @logimite7174
      @logimite7174 10 місяців тому

      English motherfucker do you speak it? (The audio quality is that bad)

  • @BackToBackJames
    @BackToBackJames 10 місяців тому +59

    I remember buying this back in 1887 and showing it to all of my friends! Was a real knee slapper back in the day.

  • @RyanM129
    @RyanM129 10 місяців тому +1

    Anyone else have this glued to their recommended the last week??

  • @grac3om
    @grac3om Місяць тому +1

    I find it so fascinating that we can hear these and have access to them now, almost 140 years later. I know we can barely understand anything but I still think it's incredible, especially considering how primitive recordings were back then. The fact this has survived is amazing. I was a little creeped out by this too though. I think it's because we know this man has been dead a very long time now but we can still hear his voice as though he is here talking directly to us. It goes to show that sometimes, what man creates can - in some ways (like vocally) - preserve the dead. Weird thought but kind of true.

  • @michaelmcgee8543
    @michaelmcgee8543 5 років тому +130

    The word is old as time

    • @anti-ethniccleansing465
      @anti-ethniccleansing465 3 роки тому +2

      Not even. Put I’m sure equivalents of it have existed since talking primates have existed!

  • @chxruzu_
    @chxruzu_ 4 роки тому +394

    0:33 Oof?

  • @dey.fw.iceeee
    @dey.fw.iceeee 4 місяці тому +4

    Who else watched this March 11

  • @vietnam_so_good
    @vietnam_so_good 10 місяців тому +2

    i love how he just casually trills

  • @lessons_in_tanya
    @lessons_in_tanya 4 роки тому +173

    thank you for this i have always wanted to hear someone from the nineteenth century say fuck

    • @emperor-zelch1850
      @emperor-zelch1850 Рік тому +2

      Look at civil war

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 місяці тому

      @larsliamvilhelm Yes, there were. Phonautographs were literally invented TO record sound. Playback wasn't achieved yet but your statement is wrong.

  • @fuji_films
    @fuji_films 11 місяців тому +468

    Man didn't know that in the future people would deliberately lower the quality of their microphones just to sound like him, because our broken generation finds it funny.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 10 місяців тому +19

      Who the hell would know that

    • @clumsycatsfallover
      @clumsycatsfallover 10 місяців тому +25

      ​@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarwhy are you so pressed 😭😭

    • @HydroxTheCat
      @HydroxTheCat 10 місяців тому +5

      It is funny though

    • @EmyN
      @EmyN 10 місяців тому +3

      It is funny

    • @yaqubebased1961
      @yaqubebased1961 10 місяців тому +6

      Broken mics are funny af lol saying as a 26 yo

  • @septopus3516
    @septopus3516 5 місяців тому +1

    So this is the earliest recording of Mary had a little lamb then...

  • @clarkem4119
    @clarkem4119 10 місяців тому +3

    So THAT'S what Charlie Brown's teacher has been saying all this time.

  • @jillianrayca3499
    @jillianrayca3499 4 роки тому +26

    This was recorded 3 years before the Jack the Ripper murders

  • @tairneanaich
    @tairneanaich 2 роки тому +274

    This is the biggest fucking mood, what a guy. Somehow this more than anything warms my heart, to sit in 2022 and hear this man fuck up and swear on the recording- maybe he tripped on something, or somehow forgot the next line to Mary Had A Little Lamb. Either way, I feel that human experience in my soul, mate, and thank you for preserving the evidence for us.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 10 місяців тому +4

      Remind me to never meet you mr judge a book by its cover. And he said "Ohh nuts" not "oh fuck".
      Stars in the 1900s-30s were saying "son of a gun" and "oh nuts" or just "nuts!"

    • @-Teague-
      @-Teague- 10 місяців тому +23

      ​@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarwhat are you talking about "judging a book by it's cover"?

    • @-Teague-
      @-Teague- 10 місяців тому +21

      ​@@WitchKing-Of-Angmaralso there's literally no way he said oh nuts lol doesn't sound anything like that

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 10 місяців тому

      @@-Teague- Did I respond to you before now?

    • @moronicalmeister
      @moronicalmeister 10 місяців тому +21

      ​@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarlook at you, little miss sunshine ❤

  • @CookiesDC
    @CookiesDC 8 місяців тому +21

    I love how this immediately goes from being kinda creepy to making me belly laugh 😂

  • @notfuur6421
    @notfuur6421 10 місяців тому

    5 years later for this to show up in my recommendations, worth it

  • @simonwindsor2827
    @simonwindsor2827 3 роки тому +25

    This needs to come with a parental advisory sticker

  • @cocacolanosugar6397
    @cocacolanosugar6397 5 років тому +181

    March 11th 1885

  • @nzgoldwolf6759
    @nzgoldwolf6759 10 місяців тому +2

    And it all started exactly on my birthday

  • @MrTefe
    @MrTefe 10 місяців тому +19

    Remember that the person speaking is long gone. We are listening to someone who has been dead for tens of years.

    • @TheRandomGuy570
      @TheRandomGuy570 10 місяців тому +10

      This guy has probably been dead for almost a hundred years now.

    • @Lazyguy22
      @Lazyguy22 10 місяців тому +8

      He apparently died in 1940.

    • @mamazalama
      @mamazalama 10 місяців тому

      You are all brainwashed into believing there is "death". There simply is no "death", get over it.

  • @tCoL_corp
    @tCoL_corp 3 роки тому +37

    0:25
    When you have home work due tommorow but its not done

  • @misteraye
    @misteraye 10 місяців тому +1

    Don’t forget this was underground stuff until 1886

  • @Pixels1nn
    @Pixels1nn 10 місяців тому +3

    No way the earliest recording of the word fuck was on the 11th of March? That’s my birthday, now I can brag about that

  • @check1mate1
    @check1mate1 4 роки тому +100

    0:24

  • @nastijajhitkova3936
    @nastijajhitkova3936 4 роки тому +38

    This is my new ringtone

  • @wxman2003
    @wxman2003 9 місяців тому +3

    Apparently using the same technology at the McDonald's drive thru's.

  • @roselol4817
    @roselol4817 8 місяців тому +1

    this is such good quality omg!

  • @dierksbird
    @dierksbird 10 місяців тому +23

    the fact This is better than some people's microphones today

  • @KassTheCat
    @KassTheCat 10 місяців тому +9

    It almost sounds better than the school intercom

    • @clarkem4119
      @clarkem4119 10 місяців тому

      Sounds like one of those old drive-in speakers that used to hang from the car window.

  • @AFSFUK
    @AFSFUK 4 місяці тому +1

    Today this recording is now 139 years old
    1885 - 2024

  • @takashiari1598
    @takashiari1598 8 місяців тому +2

    That one guys mic in every multiplayer lobby: