Old Internet Videos/Content - YouTube videos and websites that were good back in the day

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Land of Noz said:
Okay, went through my favorites list a bit more, here's another video I favorited in 2007 called Youtube Guided Tour. No idea who this dude is or if he went to make many more videos, but it's a good look at what youtube was like in 2007. It's strange to think that this was the "old internet" but I guess it is. Video is unlisted, so unless you have the link you won't be able to find it apparently

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Wtf, Aaron Jaffe's "Youtube Guided Tour" has been privated.

Here's the full link for those wondering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcZ-bAZtC34

To be clear, there's been no visible activity on his channel for the last 2 to 3 years. Why private an unlisted 14 year old video likely nobody has seen since 2009 besides a couple of us? The guy seems to be currently busy as a sports coach, so why bother logging into your channel for the first time since 2015 to private a single video? Does Jaffe have Google alerts or does he lurk/have an account here....

What's interesting about this video is that it is by far the most viewed video on his Channel at around 700K views when I saw it last month in July. Why even unlist/private this video to begin with then?. It's a seminal video from YouTube's early years too with its an old school style, a showcase of the website's good days and it had a comment from TheComputerNerd01 around year before he became widely famous on the platform. This guy seemed to have been one of the OG comedy Youtubers from the 2005 to 2007 era which is likely why Land of Noz favourited one of his vids.

The key reason I suspect for him initially privating videos is that he wanted to start fresh as a gaming channel judging by his "Aaronplay" banner along with his older appearance than in the videos. Once that venture probably playing mobile games failed or became uninteresting to him he started unprivating videos from the 2nd to the 4th of May in 2015 but kept hidden others like this one for some strange reason.

While I completely understand that it is his own content, I dislike that old videos and content like this are being lost while more commercial clean content replaces it and stays around indefinitely. This rubbed me the wrong way and I wish I had downloaded it with youtube-dl before it was too late as there's no archives of this channel whatsoever.
 
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Neo-Liberal Bugman said:
This rubbed me the wrong way and I wish I had downloaded it with youtube-dl before it was too late as there's no archives of this channel whatsoever.
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Every so often I'll remember some video I never downloaded and it turns out it's been deleted or flagged and there's probably no way anyone will ever see it again.
 
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Thumb Butler said:
Google loves to delete stuff history.

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YouTube is purging unlisted videos TOMORROW

I'm sure most of you are aware by now, but just in case, tomorrow YouTube will set all unlisted videos that were uploaded before 01/01/2017 to...
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And now, a huge amount of Google Drive links are about to be broken... just like with YouTube.

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Ahhh that's probably what happened. I had heard about Youtube doing this but wasn't sure when. They probably initiated that job in late July/early August.
 
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Thumb Butler said:
Google loves to delete stuff history.

old.reddit.com

YouTube is purging unlisted videos TOMORROW

I'm sure most of you are aware by now, but just in case, tomorrow YouTube will set all unlisted videos that were uploaded before 01/01/2017 to...
old.reddit.com old.reddit.com
old.reddit.com

And now, a huge amount of Google Drive links are about to be broken... just like with YouTube.

Posted in r/DataHoarder by u/wenji_gefersa • 1,150 points and 202 comments
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I didn't know this. That might explain why the old "Examined Life of Gaming" videos disappeared.

For those that don't know him, he was kind of a proto GManLives, reviewing old budget FPS games like Secret Service. He's likely most famous now for his MechWarrior retrospective and the video where he complains about the guns in Black being unrealistic. His old videos were made "unlisted" years ago, and are now gone. As far as I know, they've never been re-uploaded. Some of the stuff in those early videos was gold, and now they seem gone forever, unless he decides to repost them, which I doubt he will because he unlisted them in the first place.


Luckily, this old Let's Play (more of a documentary) of Alone in the Dark by MrPodoboo survived. I could have sworn the only the first episode was listed and the rest was in a playlist, but now it's all public.
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Let's Play Alone in the Dark: Preface

August 25th, 1924: Jeremy Hartwood, painter, hanged himself in the loft of his reputedly cursed house, Derceto. Though no note was found and whatever his mot...
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I got nostalgic for old video game websites I used to visit like http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/ (which is still up - last updated in early 2000!)

I miss this stuff being posted on public message boards, where there was no such thing as moderators, you could easily pretend to be the owner of the site if you wanted, and if someone offended you - you offended them right back!
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Anyone remember the old flash animations for Fark and Newgrounds David Lovelace used to do?


I don't care what anyone says- Retarded Animal Babies is, was, and forever shall be, better than Happy Tree Friends. Best Mondo Media flash animations from back in the day were the Dr. Tran shit just due to the surrealism.
 
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Does anyone remember Mark Leung and his College Saga series? It was pretty much a Final Fantasy parody making fun of vegetarians.

He also did series of videos where it was a mix of an MMORPG and live-action, but I don't see them on his channel, and I forgot the name of the series.
 
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can any1 explain to me wut happened to xoxohth
I know its sad history but I dont understand it

why, when I try to look at posts, do I see dots and ...... and ;;;;;;;;
if I register and login, will I see regular posts?
do I need a special admit code from tucker carlson now
 
I'm surprised to see this only has 350,000 views. I remember this video being big at the time, I think it was even on the news.

It was a parody of the Peter Kay video that was popular at the time.
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Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo [Official Video]

Music video by Tony Christie performing (Is This The Way To) Amarillo. (C) 2005 BBC#TonyChristie #Amarillo #Vevo
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I started watching YouTube when it was new but I honestly can't remember much about it. Brookers was the first YouTuber I got the feels for, but she later went crazy and deleted everything because she wanted to be a director and the internet made fun of her script she left at a bus stop and now she has a new channel where she cries about getting kicked out of Landmark Forum, which is apparently some kind of secular Scientology thing.

Brooke then (I wonder what happened to her cute sister):


Brooke now:


Bonus Numa girl:

 
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Ebonic Tutor said:
Probably one of the best things to come out of Something Awful.

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Thought it was from newgrounds

I know the author went full cuck tho so being from sa explains things a bit
Dom Cruise said:
It's definitely depressing how much of the old internet is gone, imagine how great it would be if you had a time travelling computer that could visit the net exactly as it was at any date.


Had that experience when I tried to look up an old forum I didn't post on for long, but randomly remembered, not only was it long gone and only available through internet archive, but most of the links to threads were actually broken, it was sad to see this obscure but still fairly busy forum reduced to that.
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Same, lots of forums with weird hard to find shit about old tech, history, etc, all gone

Even most of wikishit's links are dead, niggas there cant even archive
BootlegPopeye said:
I've tried to tell younger people on here that the old internet wasn't paradise - yes, it was harder to quash hatethink, but online transaction were way less secure. You were much more likely to get ripped off by ebay sellers for instance (money orders used to be the main way of paying them before paypal). I was happy with the progress of the internet until 2 things happened - first, wikipedia, and then even more shitty, social media. Both of those just seemed to eventually eat up independent content creation.
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I dont think wiki was nearly as bad as social media has been
Rupert Bear said:
As a tool or education resource, the current internet is better than it has ever been. As a community or place to just fuck around on... It was definitely better back then.
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Agreed, I would've killed for the kinds of tech tutorials you get now on yt for fucking free
 
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