Talk:History of YouTube/Archive 1

Removing two sections
I removed two sections on "White House drug control" and "NY Times anti-US videos" as there is no assertion made as to what these two particular occurrances are notable in the history of YouTube. -- Zim Zala Bim talk  16:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC) todo friskf vfrrsl fe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.91.251.162 (talk) 17:50, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Recent Commercialization?
Is it just me or has Youtube stepped off the deep end lately? It seems you can no longer avoid shifting through thousands of huge corperation advertisements. Whether it be the massive video advertisements in the front, the ads along the side that push down the video descriptions, or the new Pre & Post Video ads... Oh, and dont forget the in-video ads.... (***UNSIGNED***)

It's actually gotten even WORSE - now you not only have side ads, but there's an average of 1 ad on the video itself for every 90 seconds of length! THEN there's google's deletion of part of the policy, so now commercial ads are no longer forbidden - Search for videos from your city and specify upload date, and you'll see it's flooded with videos from realtors and car dealerships (many using multiple accounts to upload the same exact videos) hawking houses and cars!

97.107.39.205 (talk) 11:31, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

rumors going around of YouTube shutting down
I don't know, I noticed it was just some rumor, but if anyone knows more about this, and would like to make a reference about this in the article, feel free to do so.--70.240.179.244 (talk) 22:36, 25 July 2009 (UTC)chris

Chad Hurley claims to not have had any connection to the PayPal company after 2003, yet he founded the company with Steve Chen, who claims to have been working at the company until 2005
http://www.nopersoncommittee.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.236.220.100 (talk) 20:14, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Separate article?
Why is there a seperate article on the history of youtube? Shouldn't this information be put on the article for youtube?206.248.167.220 (talk) 21:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC) In 2000 we sent a proposal for "Viewster" to Garage.com. They asked for a detailed business plan and technical plan. We renamed to YouTube and submitted. We calculated the business should be started in 2005 due to lack of high bandwidth connections. Much, if not most of what YouTube did, was in our original proposal. We also sent it to a few other Venture Capitalists. Caveat Emptor, VC's are what they are!

Edited
Edited for grammar. Not sure what to do with the section under a prose banner (Continued growth). This section may need to be formatted like a list.

Best. -EPDev (talk to me) --EPDev (talk) 04:53, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Untitled section
Hi i hope someone can help , i am an expert on the history of youtube. I was there since the early days under another username at the time. I would like to correct some inaccuracies [ but dont know how] in the dates regarding when youtube first opened and allowed its first uploads to the public ( april 23rd 2005) although the the first few uploads were done by staff members i can assure you, many within the first 20 were not staff.. and were not related to youtube at all, some were friends of youtube workers and word spread quickly BUT anyone could of coame across the site after April 23 2005 and signed up for an account to uload as the acreen shots from the internet archive clearly show. . They were all uploaded before the supposed public preview in "june 2005" the evidence can be seen here as i archived all 20 videos and i stil maintain this archive for historical purposes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uImk2RgCq_U Many arguments are started over specific dates in the comments of this video with over 3.2 millions views

These are the video in order of date. Unfortubaly i didnt have the forsight to write down upload dates and many the links are non working or had to be replaced with re-uploads of the originals.

We CANNOT loose this portal to the past as youtube changed how we watch videos on ther internet. and it only been 11 years and these historical facts are already under assualt.

\-- 1)Me at the zoo by jawed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC...

2)My Snowboarding Skillz by mw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeAltg...

3) Flambe Disaster by tunafat (steve chen_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdxtX...

4) Bootie Christ Dance by BootieChrist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y18rv...

5)German Dominating by BootieChrist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJHjJ...

6) Boat Ride Tahoe @ 60mph by BootieChrist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebKlgR...

7) Badass Snowboarding by ilias http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqsRo9...

8) tribute by gp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBfUFr...

9) Premature Baldness by paul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfgHo...

10) Wait, you forgot to close the taxi door by hitofushi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXG7e1...

11) carrie rides a truck by jones4carrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGaUKf...

12) carrie chokes the chicken by jones4carrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Fk7v...

13) Tiger Remixed hurlex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP6y1T...

14) cybergoon squad by greg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ8rk5...

15) Vernal Lullaby by bullemhead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMRNma...

16) mercado del albert kuyp by pepa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npYvuM...

17) Pandas at the San Diego Zoo by tunafat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UwuYq...

18) Le clandestin by hchicha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qfzQh...

19) Sleep Like Lumber? by zubazpants http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U45UqI...

20) tow chinese boys:i want it that way by cow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1LZVm...

HTML5 and Flash
Maybe there should be a mentioning in the article that YouTube used flash as standard player for years but since 2016 adapted HTML5 as standard for most browsers(I think only newer Firefox versions are exceptions but cant provide if its true). For IE11 this is true, even using compability mode will not change back to Flash. However there is a way you can switch between HTML5 and Flash still and older browsers or Operating systems with browsers not supporting HTML5 will use Flash, which I tested recently. --2A02:8388:4181:5600:5D03:299:2F4B:B5E6 (talk) 03:44, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 November 2016
There are 3 changes I want to be done:

1) Could somebody add  so that it says, "June - Comments" to the template to the right underneath History_of_YouTube, since YouTube implemented commenting on June 14, 2005 (hence the first comment, "LOL!!!!!!!"), even though YouTube was launched to the general public on April 23, 2005 (1 ½ months prior)?

Edit/update: 2) Could somebody also add  into the template, so that it says, "November - Merger with Google+" in the template to show when Google+ merged with YouTube?

3) And could you capitalize the "t" in YouTube in both  and   as well? 173.73.227.128 (talk) 03:37, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Example:

Source(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_wU0qhEPR8&lc=z23rvpxgulijuj0yl04t1aokg0lbjl2jgpzuplh4qlyybk0h00410 http://imgur.com/lzDaC0k
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. 🔯 Sir Joseph 🍸 (talk) 17:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
 * If you look at my first two sources (below), you can notice that if you go between both versions, one version of YouTube once didn't allow commenting and another did in June of 2005, proving the commenting system of YouTube was implemented in the said month and year. 173.73.227.128 (talk) 18:39, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Source(s): YouTube without comments - http://web.archive.org/web/20050616004243/http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube with comments - http://web.archive.org/web/20050617015149/http://www.youtube.com/ Oldest YouTube comment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx-9NQPmghc Oldest YouTube comment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_wU0qhEPR8&lc=z23rvpxgulijuj0yl04t1aokg0lbjl2jgpzuplh4qlyybk0h00410 Oldest YouTube comment - https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/35nqeo/cobaltgruvs_comment_on_me_at_the_zoo_is_not_the/?st=iw596kwa&sh=20f8ad91 Google+ - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/youtube-switches-google-clean-up-2686400


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svgNot done-Avoid WP:OR.Provide reliable sources. Aru@baska ❯❯❯  Vanguard 11:54, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 December 2016
Alright then, then I want only 2 changes to be done:

1) Could somebody add  into the template, so that it says, "November - Merger with Google+" in the template to show when Google+ merged with YouTube? (Source below)

2) And could someone capitalize the "t" in YouTube in both  and   as well?

Example:

Source(s): Google+ - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/youtube-switches-google-clean-up-2686400

}} 173.73.227.128 (talk) 18:37, 8 December 2016 (UTC)


 * -The capitalisation was done.There was no merger of Youtube with Google+,only some kind of integration.Many websites/forums allow users having a Facebook/Google account to post materials, reply in threads etc--that hardly means all the websites merged with Google and Facebook! Aru@baska ❯❯❯  Vanguard 16:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Added citation
The section that beings "google aims to" and goes on to talk about competing with Daily Motion can be cited with this article: but the statement could be made more clear if it said "YouTube aims to," as Google owns YouTube and that's where the competition lies. Hanhim7 (talk) 23:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2018
There is text reading "On 03 April 2018, a shooting took place at Youtube headquarters." This is YouTube, an American website, so can anyone change the date fornat to April 3, 2018 and capitalize "Youtube" in that sentence? 2600:1011:B161:5F1C:E1FC:1B80:90FC:7B7A (talk) 23:07, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done  JTP (talk • contribs) 23:32, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

YouTube outage, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
There was just an outage on YouTube at about 01:10, 17 October (UTC) that affected millions of users across the world. Should we add this incident? —Wei4Green &#124; 唯绿远大 (talk) 02:33, 17 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Since you answered a similar question on the talk page to Youtube. Maybe you can answer this request. JC7V -constructive zone  02:42, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Facebook info link to YouTube videos pulls the head from 'History of YouTube' article why not the 'YouTube' article
The page head of [|History of YouTube] has a very pronounced product placement for PayPal while the page head on YouTube has a more dry and commercial selection of information.

I wonder if the History of YouTube page has been created to push the product placement into the minds of everyone who clicks the info link on a Youtube video on a FaceBook wall?

Could we move the PayPal name on the History of YouTube page just a bit further down so it does not look like Wikipedia has been subverted for covert marketing.

Idyllic press (talk) 20:43, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion: Mention abbreviated subscriber counts
References:


 * https://vidiq.com/blog/post/youtube-kill-exact-public-subscriber-counts/
 * https://vidiq.com/blog/post/youtube-limit-access-subscriber-counts/

Writing here because the article is protected. --79.241.192.128 (talk) 00:57, 20 July 2020 (UTC)