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You forgot algorithms that siloed your viewing. Pre Google YouTube was a treasure for exploration. In six clicks you could get from baking recipes to anime Kpop in Spanish, or whatever. F Miss those days. Can we get the option of the old YouTube suggestions? Ie user driven , not ai driven? Please.

All done better in terms of global impact than google owned YouTube

AND some people...

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I feel really old.

Well at least i have you Tom, youre always there for me

And now youtube is a corporate shadow of itself

20 yrs now! Wow it’s been around long.

Anyone else remember the very first thing they searched for? Mine: thirtysomething, Gary is dead

That was the beginning of the end...

Trump's presidency Musk gutting the government

Wow, YouTube predating the iPhone just feels bizarre to me

also, me

Vine is still around? 🤔

“Me at the zoo” is turning 20 link.rbjr.me/1K8lT

Thank you for posting here and not on the other hell-app. Finally ditched it, and it's nice to have more of my usual follows (including you and your boys) on BlueSky.

YouTube is only 20??! Why does it feel like it's older than that

I miss the old days.

Yes but it looked worse than previous videos

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No Wikipedia was around

I remember downloading videos from YT over my slow internet back then. Crazy times. We all thought Skype was the future of communication 😂

So it's all the fault of YouTube? Pretty credible from glancing at the content.

if u use them , u suppost them ... get off utube

Goodness - can that really be true🤯

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reddit was around

I think 20 years ago really was the heyday

Thanks

That's insane. It became a primary source of info immediately. I remember everyone losing their minds over meeting up for 7/7/7 in NYC

Twitter was not around either

I’m sure Bitcoin was around in the 90’s

things that were apparently: the sims

Azure and office 365 weren’t around either

Things that were around there: porn with jpg galleries that took eternity to load. 🤫

And now it has become a weapon of mass disinformation. Happy Gulf of America YouTube.

No way Mark Ass Brownie from YouTube Rewind

why arent I on this list??? am i not important enough to you Marques??????????

When I was a music student dreaming of making an LP I had no idea that I could stream videos to millions around the world. Now I dream of making an LP.

Yes, but speeding in school zones is timeless. <3

MAGA

I used to love Vine so much

Social media all downhill from AIM really!

Cool

The "things not around when YouTube started" really provides some interesting context 🤯

MySpace is everyone's reminder that everything has a shelf life even if it looks like it's here forever. There's always an open source ready to take up the willing and ready to fill the void.

youtu.be/RZ_r2mMcLnU?...

The chemical imbalance in my head also wasn't around yet

Ah you forgot Twitter

The downfall of the USA

Also, MAGA, President Trump, Pizzagate, QAnon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Stop the Steal, Rudy Giuliani v2.0, J6, Proud Boys, Ultra MAGA, Elon Musk, “Deep State”, Oath Keepers, the “great replacement “…. You get the idea.

Reminds me, I should check my MySpace page

Substack

And the world is so much of a better place :/

And things are getting progressively worse. I am not on social media as much anymore because it's too negative.

The DOGE hackers also didn't exist yet lol🤣🤣🤣

Damn, I thought reddit was older

add @forgottenhoops.bsky.social to that list 😉

Im older than YT but just barely lol

Wait did that dude spend valentine's day at the zoo talking about the length of elephant trunks

What a difference 20 years has made. Wonder what the next 20 years will hold.

Wow, so much thin air created in 20 years.

I'm hoping tht soon YT isn't around anymore either.

”This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

I’m 10 years older if that counts 😂

Was the first video the dog riding a skateboard or my day at the zoo?