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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

This Month is 20 Years Since I First Discovered YouTube

This month, I am not sure what day, is 20 years since I first discovered YouTube.  I remember when my mom Susan first told me about YouTube.  I was 24 at the time.  The first video I ever saw was a Starscream animation video (which I did actually find again a few years ago.  I downloaded a copy of that video).  I remember I had been looking and trying to figure out where I could upload my videos for a long time.  I did use a video hosting website called LiveDigital (no one seems to remember LiveDigital now).  That is where I had the documentary The Great Whimsical Sherlockian Tour of Oklahoma and Texas uploaded for over a year in 2006.  YouTube was very simple at the time, and it was a lot easier to use, in my opinion.  I remember watching YouTube for a few months, getting used to how people upload to it and how it works.  I remember I loved the user interface of YouTube at the time.  YouTube did not have the feature of embedding yet.  I am grateful to have discovered YouTube at the time.