Today is the tenth anniversary of YouTube. It's hard to remember what life was like before YouTube. I admit I'm a YouTube holic and while YouTube has brought me hours of enjoyment it has also brought us such horrors as Justin Bieber. As it turns out the first video I uploaded to YouTube was of the Rowdies. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W1lIG2qEPgg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I remember being on YouTube when it was just 50 videos or so... can't believe how big it has gotten. I also remember the Google acquisition was $1.65 billion, which we thought was insane at the time... now mobile apps go for four times that. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QCVxQ_3Ejkg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> To Google's credit, us early adopters thought that they would ruin it - but they've done just the opposite (outside of the stupid Google+ comments).
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rdwz7QiG0lk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Here's a good article from ARS explaining how Google saved YouTube. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/cheaper-bandwidth-or-bust-how-google-saved-youtube/2/
I wish I could delete the videos friends posted of me 10 years ago. I always wonder if an employer will find them (takes a bit of effort). YouTube has probably ruined a lot of political/public careers.
I had an employer pass on me (I never interviewed with them, headhunter sent them my resume) for a video they found of me, from a 2000 Nine Inch Nails show where I said the F-word. I was 21 years old at the time, and this was in the summer of 2014 that they saw it. I was still working at Microsoft then, so I just LOL'd about it. Six months later they called me to invite me to interview with them because they hadn't found anyone as qualified. I told them to Go F-themselves, literally... I happily burned the crap out of that bridge. EDIT: Here's the video, which was recorded on May 22nd 2000 at the Compaq center. I uploaded to YouTube on September 25th, 2006 - because nin.com took it down in a site redesign. ClutchFans' very own Harrisment can be seen in it to. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GMWUKU7YHzU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I'm kind of surprised there is less talk about this considering how much YouTube has changed not just the way we view media but really culture around the world. Would anyone outside of Korea know who Psy was without YouTube? YouTube probably more than any other site has made Web 2.0 possible.
It feels older than that. This means YouTube came out after I was in college. I'd of thought it existed when I was in HS. I was too busy downloading p*rn back then to care about anything else.
i remember when everything was on youtube, it was a short period of time, but i loved when there was no copyright worries on youtube
Ever since 2007 when Youtube went on a big copyright sweep taking down ANYTHING arbitrarily with no warning, and they deleted my old original account for no reason, its been a strained relationship with them. (I posted a vid with small splices of MLB highlight footage, and a music video that had VH-1 logo on it, was grounds for account removal) No doubt YT is indispensable as the world's media repository. All the little slaps on the wrist theyve given though, and I'm far from a pirater, its nannied me away from full on engagement (though no site still comes even close in 2nd place)
YT aren't so proactive when it comes to hate group material. So many hate group communities on there. I wonder if they don't care and just want the page hits, ie advertsing $$$.
