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Post by John Titor on Dec 31, 2021 3:17:04 GMT 10
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. Jackass imitators happened so much in Fall 2002 it was unreal, I remember this dude got on a skateboard at lunch and fell while trying to jump over the table, all the food fell off and created a dent in the floor as the table snapped in half. This was all crudely taped on this Sony vhs camcorder. I think he called it ASS JACK or something lol Another time this dude did a head butt through the window and his foot kicked all the vending machines over causing all the drinks to fall out everywhere. This is the kind of random stuff you would see in 2002 and 2003 lol
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Post by slashpop on Dec 31, 2021 3:23:44 GMT 10
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. Jackass imitators happened so much in Fall 2002 it was unreal, I remember this dude got on a skateboard at lunch and fell while trying to jump over the table, all the food fell off and created a dent in the floor as the table snapped in half. This was all crudely taped on this Sony vhs camcorder. I think he called it ASS JACK or something lol Another time this dude did a head butt through the window and his foot kicked all the vending machines over causing all the drinks to fall out everywhere. This is the kind of random stuff you would see in 2002 and 2003 lol For sure. Makes 2010s prank videos look wimpy. Lool. I’ve done stuff like that year too lol following the jackass trend. I have a bunch of tapes don’t know where they are. We would get drunk and do crazy shit. Some of it was really embrassing and dangerous.
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Post by ItsMichael on Dec 31, 2021 13:30:53 GMT 10
I don't know if this would work but maybe some stuff that was created on Newgrounds would show on the platform? Newgrounds came out before Youtube so either that or low quality videos like when Youtube first started in 2005.
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Post by sman12 on Jan 10, 2022 16:09:21 GMT 10
From research and anecdotes from members on here, here's what I've gathered:
- It would be in competition with sites like the infamous eBaum's World, SomethingAwful, Albino BlackSheep, Newgrounds, etc.
- Most people (in Western countries) were still using dial-up according to Pew Research Center in 2003, which is a lot slower than broadband, so the site probably won't catch on until a few years later, especially with video buffering
- Unauthorized music videos, edgy prank/short meme videos, and early Flash animation videos (Homestar Runner, for example) might've been the primary trends on the site
- The primary video quality would probably be 144p
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Post by astropoug on May 1, 2022 11:49:11 GMT 10
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. I feel like the bold is essentially what YouTube was in its early days. I mean, cat humor is like SUCH a late 00/early 10s thing to me. Prank call videos were also popular back then. AVGN technically began in 2004, and his really early stuff in 2006 was really not too different from his first two videos. I distinctly remember the mid 2000s was the peak of Happy Tree Friends, to the point it even got a TV show on G4, one of the first instances of TV networks being influenced by web culture.
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Post by astropoug on May 1, 2022 11:51:46 GMT 10
I feel like if YouTube existed in 2003/2004, it likely would've been a weird combination of Newgrounds, eBaum's World, and 2005/2006 era YouTube. I feel like because dial-up was still popular, videos would either be in really low quality (i.e. 144p), or, much like what you did on eBaumsWorld, you wouldn't stream the video, instead, you'd actually download it, and then watch the video on Windows Media Player/RealPlayer/VLC.
If it did exist, online videos that already existed in 2003/2004 like Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa, and the first two AVGN episodes likely would've been uploaded there.
I actually don't think it would've impacted websites like Newgrounds too much, since the main reason YouTube won out over Newgrounds came down to being able to get monetized from your content, which didn't really become much of a thing until about 2008, when Newgrounds began to decline. YouTube likely would've become popular, but it wouldn't be owned by Google, and, just based off how video hosting platforms were back then, you wouldn't see ads in or before videos (which didn't even become a thing on YouTube until 2007).
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Post by John Titor on May 1, 2022 11:54:01 GMT 10
I feel like if YouTube existed in 2003/2004, it likely would've been a weird combination of Newgrounds, eBaum's World, and 2005/2006 era YouTube. I feel like because dial-up was still popular, videos would either be in really low quality (i.e. 144p), or, much like what you did on eBaumsWorld, you wouldn't stream the video, instead, you'd actually download it, and then watch the video on Windows Media Player/RealPlayer/VLC. most likely, the mass DSL shift happened around Fall 2004 ( when the real mid 2000s started) so you prob wouldn't even see 10 min videos making the full click, lots of pause and waiting lol
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Post by astropoug on May 1, 2022 12:06:14 GMT 10
I feel like if YouTube existed in 2003/2004, it likely would've been a weird combination of Newgrounds, eBaum's World, and 2005/2006 era YouTube. I feel like because dial-up was still popular, videos would either be in really low quality (i.e. 144p), or, much like what you did on eBaumsWorld, you wouldn't stream the video, instead, you'd actually download it, and then watch the video on Windows Media Player/RealPlayer/VLC. most likely, the mass DSL shift happened around Fall 2004 ( when the real mid 2000s started) so you prob wouldn't even see 10 min videos making the full click, lots of pause and waiting lol Considering how even most late 2000s YouTube videos were generally less than 10 minutes long, it's pretty much guaranteed most YouTube videos in 2003/2004 would be short. Even in 2005/2006, I remember most videos were less than 5 minutes long. Anything over that was considered long by those standards. The maximum resolution of videos on 2005/2006 YouTube was 240p, which is likely what the resolution of videos in 2003/2004 would be like. So basically, 240p videos that are less than 5 minutes long would define the site, which is pretty much like how YouTube was in 2005/2006 anyways.
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Post by John Titor on May 1, 2022 12:27:40 GMT 10
most likely, the mass DSL shift happened around Fall 2004 ( when the real mid 2000s started) so you prob wouldn't even see 10 min videos making the full click, lots of pause and waiting lol Considering how even most late 2000s YouTube videos were generally less than 10 minutes long, it's pretty much guaranteed most YouTube videos in 2003/2004 would be short. Even in 2005/2006, I remember most videos were less than 5 minutes long. Anything over that was considered long by those standards. The maximum resolution of videos on 2005/2006 YouTube was 240p, which is likely what the resolution of videos in 2003/2004 would be like. So basically, 240p videos that are less than 5 minutes long would define the site, which is pretty much like how YouTube was in 2005/2006 anyways. I forgot about that lol yeah most videos were like 4-5 min in length, movies when leaked during that time were 10 min and split into parts
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