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Post by John Titor on Dec 30, 2021 4:46:41 GMT 10
So say Youtube came out in 2003 and got popular towards the end of the year, how would the rest of the mid 2000s play out ?
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Post by dudewitdausername on Dec 30, 2021 5:35:33 GMT 10
There'd be videos on YouTube from the early 2000s lol. Don't know what they'd be like, but tbh it would probably be like MySpace and not blow up until late 2004 (Web 2.0)
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Post by John Titor on Dec 30, 2021 7:12:16 GMT 10
People would be searching up 50 Cent’s “In Da Club,” Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love,” 2003 VMA’s with the scene of Britney Spears kissing Madonna, and 2004 Super Bowl Halftime scene where the wardrobe malfunction happens. YouTube would probably blow up at the same time Myspace did in Q4 2004. most likely, music video countdown shows would die quicker
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Post by goodbants on Dec 30, 2021 7:13:36 GMT 10
Youtube came out in 2005, so 2 years earlier wouldn’t make much of a difference. Youtube didn’t become mainstream until like 2007 though. If YouTube came out and was mainstream in 2003, that would be a different story.
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Post by John Titor on Dec 30, 2021 7:14:43 GMT 10
Youtube came out in 2005, so 2 years earlier wouldn’t make much of a difference. Youtube didn’t become mainstream until like 2007 though. If YouTube came out and was mainstream in 2003, that would be a different story. it became mainstream in 2006, made the cover of Time Magazine
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Post by goodbants on Dec 30, 2021 7:14:57 GMT 10
People would be searching up 50 Cent’s “In Da Club,” Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love,” 2003 VMA’s with the scene of Britney Spears kissing Madonna, and 2004 Super Bowl Halftime scene where the wardrobe malfunction happens. YouTube would probably blow up at the same time Myspace did in Q4 2004. One of the main reasons youtube was created was because people were looking for somewhere on the internet to watch the wardrobe malfunction and couldn’t find it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2021 7:21:49 GMT 10
So say Youtube came out in 2003 and got popular towards the end of the year, how would the rest of the mid 2000s play out ? I'm not sure the Internet was ready yet in 2003. People forget how many people were still on dial-up back then and video streaming simply didn't work. The first video sharing site, Dailymotion, began in early 2005 but never caught on the way YouTube did. YouTube had the advantage of a combination of perfect timing and an intuitive interface.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2021 7:30:39 GMT 10
There'd be videos on YouTube from the early 2000s lol. Don't know what they'd be like, but tbh it would probably be like MySpace and not blow up until late 2004 (Web 2.0) Most likely videos of spiky-haired teenagers skating to loud pop punk music. Short, highly pixelated videos. The video recording on the digital cameras that most people had back then was poor quality and memory cards weren't large enough to hold very much video. 2003 was also the year that long hair for guys started to overtake the short, spiked up look of the Y2K era.
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Post by mc98 on Dec 30, 2021 8:52:24 GMT 10
It would be very amateur. Like teens filming themselves skating while listening to Linkin Park in a very pixelated 144p.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Dec 30, 2021 10:17:29 GMT 10
I'd feel really weird seeing YouTube videos with the upload date as 2003 or 2004. Even 2005 and 2006 upload dates on YouTube look kinda wrong lol.
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Post by John Titor on Dec 30, 2021 13:51:21 GMT 10
imagine running youtube on dial up
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Post by jaydawg89 on Dec 30, 2021 18:17:19 GMT 10
I think it would of taken longer for it to take off as broadband didn't overtake dial-up until late 2004 (only a matter of months before Youtube actually came out). Using Youtube with dial-up wouldn't be the most practical lol. Overall, Youtube would have only taken off only a matter of months earlier.
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Post by slashpop on Dec 30, 2021 23:19:48 GMT 10
I think it wouldn’t have made a difference. We were watching short digitized clips, music videos, flash shorts, random snippets of tv stuff and humor clips regularly all throughout 97/1998-2004 but visiting homepages/fan pages, 5-7 video sites, torrents and after 1999 file sharing sites were used a lot to watch videos, random clips and movies in better resolution.
In 2003 you it would take you maybe anywhere from 3-6+ hours to download a 240p video of 1 hour long video of the hives concert or a movie, which were limited and not legally distributed online then, or 30 minutes hour to download a few music videos in semi- clean resolution. Anywhere form 2-10 minutes to watch 2-5 minute flash or tv snippet humor short clips on newgrounds or view music videos or interviews ripped from VHS recordings on music video sites on the official sites or music video clip channels. Lots of stuff was taken from VHS back then and was heavy pixated.
What made YouTube big was having a large variety of quality content all in one places and recorded clips uploaded which took time, especially stuff that was equal to or from traditional media, better digital cameras, phone cameras and webcams and content with high production values and digital video quality enhancements and faster internet.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Dec 31, 2021 0:29:45 GMT 10
I think it wouldn’t have made a difference. We were watching short digitized clips, music videos, flash shorts, random snippets of tv stuff and humor clips regularly all throughout 97/1998-2004 but visiting homepages/fan pages, 5-7 video sites, torrents and also file sharing sites after 1999 were a great watch videos, random clips and movies in better resolution. What made YouTube big was having a large variety of quality content and recorded clips uploaded which took time, especially stuff that was equal to or from traditional media, better digital cameras, phone cameras and webcams and show content and digital video quality enhancements and faster internet. Yeah, I do actually remember streaming videos back then, I remember viral videos like Peanut Butter Jelly Time, All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us, Badger Badger Badger, Star Wars Kid... I also remember using realplayer back then and downloading videos off like Kazaa and Limewire. Some well... interesting videos you would come across lol.
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Post by slashpop on Dec 31, 2021 2:32:58 GMT 10
I think it wouldn’t have made a difference. We were watching short digitized clips, music videos, flash shorts, random snippets of tv stuff and humor clips regularly all throughout 97/1998-2004 but visiting homepages/fan pages, 5-7 video sites, torrents and also file sharing sites after 1999 were a great watch videos, random clips and movies in better resolution. What made YouTube big was having a large variety of quality content and recorded clips uploaded which took time, especially stuff that was equal to or from traditional media, better digital cameras, phone cameras and webcams and show content and digital video quality enhancements and faster internet. Yeah, I do actually remember streaming videos back then, I remember viral videos like Peanut Butter Jelly Time, All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us, Badger Badger Badger, Star Wars Kid... I also remember using realplayer back then and downloading videos off like Kazaa and Limewire. Some well... interesting videos you would come across lol. 2002-2004 was known for prank humour clips, people in colleges and high schools would emulate jackass and upload on line to such places and forums and random clip websites.Winamp for mp3s was already a thing in 1997-1998, I think real player started around 1994-1995. I remember it being popular around 1996-1997. I think before south park aired they were submitted stuff online in like 1996 and thats how they got big. Coolest stuff to download/view in : 1994-1996: Homemade midi files tracks (stuff like beavis and butthead, doom and simpsons theme song), trailers/movie snippeets and short cartoons in very very very low res, short audio samples (pre-mp3) doom add ons and shareware. 1996-1998: Small but increasing Mp3s scattered in random places, interactive gifs, early animation shorts, interactive websites and website games and pc demos which take ages to download, a few early emulators, watching/uploading short clips just in the process of growing and refining a bit more for the first time but still in infancy. 1999-2004: Flash animations becoming a trend, prank and humor video from around 2002-2004, music albums, music videos and episodes in watchable but low to medium res in via file sharing variety from 1999-2000 onwards , enough variety of low to medium rest video content online for the first time by 2001, emulation is more mainstream. 2004 to early 2006: Cellphone clips, peak webseries and flash, edgy non pc juvenile pre-teen humour and snippets of stand up comedy jokes, early vlogiging, cat humor, randomness vids are popular, skateboarding, concerts through phone, short gossiping/rambling videos, very early reviewing, classroom and jokes and random footage recorded through phones uploaded online en masse, video content starts improving. There is an teenage and very rough feel to this era, I think online video content wasn't taken very seriously.
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