“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.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲
@oakley.bsky.social
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this is surreal. Amazing find.
I just saw a video of falling snow 🫠
there are also other filenamed videos people sent to youtube, a guy has multiple videos talking about it
A glimpse into the web as it was
I got a dude in 2013 playing some pretty decent music on his big ass digital keyboards. Nice
Heh. The first random one it sent me to was a baby's first steps.
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I got passenger seat of illegal drag racing.
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A baby happily gurgling. A gymnast doing a backflip and being applauded by her team mates. A bride laughing on the dancefloor. Absolutely wonderful.
Omg this is sick as hell
Yeah. This gives me a lot of feelings
It turns out that most of these are videos people took of their own kids. Nope, no thanks. Unrelated, Riley is grabbing and storing referer URLs to keep track of which platforms their visitors are coming from. Riley can go fuck themselves.
The first random video that was shown to me was a wedding ceremony 🙂
This is insanely cool
Hey just so you know that's not CGI, that's a real coin box you can buy. I've not seen one with the brick texture before, but it's a real thing, the mouth moves to "eat" the coins you put in the box.
Oh, that's interesting!
Watched someone do a crazy spinning flip. And another person pull a prank with a tennis racket as a fly swatter, but it wouldn't let me re-watch that one
ROCK N ROLL www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlnB...
One of the videos it showed was of the Korean DMZ, kinda surprised they let you film there...
It really is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
This is amazing and I feel bad for all these people that might not realize they still have their little children up on YouTube for mass consumption, even if drowned out by numbers. People approached online privacy differently in 2009.
There's an old video still on YouTube that my aunt took when she came to visit from Australia and went bowling with me and the kid, when the kid was 4. He's 22 now and loves that it's there.
I watched like four clips, and it felt like nostalgia I could no longer remember, but all of the clips were very small children. It felt sweet, but also wrong considering what we know about the internet now
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It’s amazing and a little depressing to think of all the random digital footprints we’ve left all over the net, most of which are long forgotten like these clips. It’s brought out some seriously dusty corners of the old internet.
It would be foolish of me to not give @foundfootagefest.com a shoutout: youtu.be/Ve3sFY7mXhI
This is weird. It feels like searching through somebody’s wallet because they left it on the table. Not for me I guess.
Oh wow! Thank you! IMG_ brought me there: www.youtube.com/@wellifluest...