IMG_0001 - "Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives."

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No views. Nobody has seen this in over 10 years. Feels like uncorking a nice cheap bottle of wine.
 
Lady Adjani said:
Reminds me of that one time, like 10 years ago, when a router manufacturer (forget which one) had a default setting enabled in their software that basically turned your PC into a FTP server, and people (not me, obviously) spent days just going through random peoples documents and pictures.

Most of it was harmless, like pictures of people at parties, cats, random events, or documents of how someone tried to make Beer Pong 2.0, poetry etc. One of them was a retired investigator / cop and actually had a myriad of old crime scene photos.
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I remember that. It affected anything 'NAS'. The routers had a USB-port where USB drives could be plugged in and to become a network drive. As a bonus they were automatically open outwards facing FTPs as well. You just thrawled through them with a search term like "DO NOT DISCLOSE" or something similar to that using a FTP search engine.
 
I can't seem to get it to load on Ungoogled Chromium despite disabling every extension (uBlock Origin, Adnauseum, Tampermonkey, LocalCDN). Works fine on Brave and Firefox though.

EDIT: Thread tax, a church choir singing with 0 views for the season:
 
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I said before it reminds me of 2am at the 711, but I think in hindsight it reminds me of the kind of stuff you'd find on old YouTube back in the day.

heloderma_suspectum said:
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16 views now. All Kiwis I assume?

Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
I remember that. It affected anything 'NAS'. The routers had a USB-port where USB drives could be plugged in and to become a network drive. As a bonus they were automatically open outwards facing FTPs as well. You just thrawled through them with a search term like "DO NOT DISCLOSE" or something similar to that using a FTP search engine.
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I do wonder how many of these videos are accidental uploads, or in some cases if people even know they were uploaded at all.

Wasn't there some site that collected live feeds from security cameras where the owners never changed the default password, so you could watch things from random traffic cameras to inside someone's house?

ForkyMeetsPorky said:
There was a similar thing you could do on Youtube by searching for MOV0001, MOV0002, etc which was the default filename for various DV camera's.
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I remember hearing to use the tag before:[Some date] in a search to get videos from that date, so before:2012 would get you videos from 2011 or sooner, but I wonder if there will be some combinations of tags you could use to see popular videos on a given date.

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Judge Dredd said:
I do wonder how many of these videos are accidental uploads, or in some cases if people even know they were uploaded at all.
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People used to share videos like this, so it's not accidental.
Judge Dredd said:
Wasn't there some site that collected live feeds from security cameras where the owners never changed the default password, so you could watch things from random traffic cameras to inside someone's house?
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It was easier than that, the security cameras created an outwards facing web interface so you just searched for "[whatever it was].html" on google. I don't remember the brand, but the web-interface allowed you to move them as well if they had motors.
 


Judge Dredd said:
I said before it reminds me of 2am at the 711, but I think in hindsight it reminds me of the kind of stuff you'd find on old YouTube back in the day.
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maybe it's NOSTALGIA-VISION ™️ but everything and everyone felt more human prior to 2012. it's like reality split into two.
 
Some kind of cleaning or restoration of headlights.

Feeding a bunny.

Some dogs playing.
 
So this site is kind of like Petit Tube then. Cool.
I remember a year or two ago having fun searching up videos with IMG_XXXX filenames after realizing that a lot of old camcorders saved videos with that title format. It can be interesting to try to cut through the algorithm and find stuff from ten years ago with almost no views. Gives you a special feeling sometimes. I wonder if there are other filename formats that can be searched for similar results. Videos like these are what YouTube was meant for. Just random day-to-day bullshit uploaded by random nobodies, and not the algorithmically-driven slop that gets churned out now.

Anyway here's what I got:

Pretty sure that's a troon in the 3rd video.
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This kindve reminds me of a similar trick I used a few years ago to mess with people. Rather than looking for old videos, I would look for videos uploaded in the past hour- past day and use keywords like "Presentation". I'd find publicly listed videos for people's school and work projects and leave comments
 
Dark Macca said:



maybe it's NOSTALGIA-VISION ™️ but everything and everyone felt more human prior to 2012. it's like reality split into two.
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It's because that's about when social media became profitable to be on and everyone started chasing the algorithm instead of just putting up whatever they felt like. It even affected previously wholesome 100 chungus content creators who slowly - or in some cases suddenly - shifted from that organic "doing what I want and having fun doing it" vibe to the soyface in thumbnail, curated for modern audiences, this video is brought to you by Raid: Shadow Legends slop.

In short, try but hole the internet used to be for enthusiasts, now it's for Fellow Kids trying to bilk as much money as possible out of 12 year olds.
 
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