Sunday, October 5, 2025
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.