001 - the First Youtube Videos I Watched (2006-2007)
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No Cameras Allowed by Computer Clan #001 - The First YouTube Videos I Watched (2006-2007) Show Notes: YouTube Videos Ken Discussed: Harmonic Balance by Derek Hugger The Incredible Mouth Band Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? Shoes Transcription*: [inaudible] You guys, how are you all doing? If you're new here, welcome. My name is Krazy Ken. And today we're jumping into the first official episode of my brand new podcast. No cameras allowed. So if you haven't listened to episode zero, zero, zero, yet I highly recommend you do, because that will kind of break everything down for you as to why I'm here and what we're going to be doing. So I will pause for a moment to let you do that. Okay. That should be enough time. So we're moving on now with our first episode. And I thought before we dove into more of the behind the scenes stories and everything for current projects and past projects in Estancia and going back and forth through time and all that stuff, I thought, why not start before the channel even existed? And just talk about some of the stuff I watched on YouTube way back, like in Oh six and Oh seven when YouTube was very young. And we can also talk a little bit about what you do was like back then. So yeah, I thought that'd be a fun place to start. So let's time travel back to 2006. That was the first time I discovered YouTube. YouTube started as something completely different. Like it wasn't, it was started as like a dating service if I recall correctly. And I believe it was started by two guys that used to work at PayPal. And, you know, again, like I talked about in episode zero, this is kind of like really unscripted. Like, I, I, this isn't supposed to be like a solid lecture, you know, like you're not learning from me. So, um, I was gonna like, look at these videos in real time as I talked about them, but I can also search a few things in real time too. Cause you know, not all the facts are in my head. So let's see. Um, what was YouTube originally for? And I'm pretty sure it was a dating service, but I just want to check, let's see YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen. And I can't pronounce that last one. Joe Wood Karine. I'm sorry if I'm totally butchering that, but yeah, uh, it looks like February 14th, 2005, and yet it says right here, YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees. So perfect. But I feel like even before then it was something else. Like I thought it was like a, a dating service or something. Maybe that was a rumor, but let's not go that far back. Let's just say 2005. Yes, it was these three guys from PayPal. We got that, right. The trademark was registered on February 14, 2005. And the earliest that the first video uploaded, which is still up was that guy at the zoo. It was like called me at the zoo. That's what it was like, but we're going way too far back. I was not on YouTube quite at that time. So I discovered YouTube in 2006. I remember, Oh man, to the best of my knowledge, I think I was at school and I was in a computer lab and I was, Oh, hang on. This is like my mini like OCD or like ADHD kicking in whatever. I don't think I have that actually, but I'm distracted now I'm reading this still. And it said, did you know it was originally a dating site? Huh? Okay. I guess I was right about that. According to medium.com anyway, so yes, I was in the computer lab at school. Right. And I think I was making like a PowerPoint presentation or something. So like, you know what a lot of kids like to do at the time to get it images, you don't need to go to Google images. Like everybody was doing that. You type in a thing, you'd press the images button, boom. It would show you a bunch of pictures. So I remember doing that to get my images for this PowerPoint or whatever I was working on. But then I saw this button on the Google website that said video and I was like, Oh wow, Google images is so cool. Well what's Google video going to be like, this has gotta be so cool. So I clicked on that. Somehow through there, I ended up, I ended up landing on this website called YouTube and I had no idea what the heck it was. I know Google acquired them at one time. Let's see. When did Google acquire YouTube were searching this stuff in real time here? 2006. Okay. So it was probably right around the time they acquired them. That's why I that's maybe why I saw that YouTube search result pop up. And I was like, what the heck is YouTube? So later I was probably back at home, you know, after a long day of fifth grading. And uh, I went back on this Google video thing. Right. And I saw YouTube pop up again with that red logo. And I was like, what is this? So I went and through to it and to the best of my knowledge, the first video I remember seeing was from the happy tree. Uh, if you don't know what it is, if you look up happy tree friends, it's from Mondo media. It actually started, I think back in 1999, I first saw it on YouTube and it, at the, on the surface, it looks like a cartoon. And I just accidentally Blair the theme song over the speakers. I, I don't know by audio, I'll put his set to external headphones. So I don't know how it played over my, my enormous, um, monitoring system. But, uh, I first saw this and it looks like a cartoon. Right. You know, like a kid friendly cartoon on the surface, but no, it is gory. Like there is blood, these animals, like it's not like Tom and Jerry violence. It's not that kind of slap stick. This is like guts and blood and eyeballs falling out of heads. Slapsticks so don't watch it if you don't like blood in that kind of stuff. But yes, I remembered seeing this and that's, this was kind of like what started getting me down the YouTube rabbit hole, which is kind of coincidental because there was a rabbit in the show. It's got a funny, so then I kind of just kept going through some stuff and looking some things up. Um, I was, I was really into anime music back then. It's those animated instruments that play music really cool stuff. And I remember seeing a bunch of like third party animations people doing their own homemade versions of that. I thought that was so cool. And while I'm on this topic, I mean, what was YouTube like back then? Like on a technical level? Well, nowadays we can upload ginormous, warm as videos, gigabytes upon gigabytes in size and you know, eight K resolution and all that stuff. No, not back then. This was 2006 coming on 2007. So the file upload limit was 100 megabytes at the time. And unless you had like a special account, I don't remember exactly what it was, but unless you had a special type of account, you couldn't upload more than 10 minutes in a video. So that's why if you look at some older YouTube videos that are still up, they may be split up into multiple parts because there was a 10 minute limit. You couldn't do anything right about that unless you had this special account. So a hundred megabytes. So yeah, you can't fit a lot of high cost, all the video data into 100 megabytes. So, interesting thing is while you were watching the video in the web player, that flash-based web player, this was before HTML five, like mobile compatibility and all that stuff. But while, while you were watching it in there, that player was actually scaling the video up just a little bit. So it looked a little bit. Yeah, but it wasn't the native resolution. So YouTube gave you a button that you could click and the video would shrink down to its normal smaller size because that's how tiny these things were. That's what it was like 10 minute limit, 100 megabyte limit. And the descriptions on the side, you know, like all the YouTubers nowadays will say like links are in the description below, but no back then the descriptions were to the right, the house right. Of the videos. So you would have to say like the link is on the right. You know, if anyone even said that, I don't even know, but you know, that's how the layout was no liking system. You couldn't like or dislike a video. We had a star system. So you could rate a video like one, two, three, four or five stars.