So many articles from just ten years ago are dead links now. But I found this amusing: "lonelygirl15 is the hottest thing on YouTube at the moment (18,222 subs

So many articles from just ten years ago are dead links now. But I found this amusing: "lonelygirl15 is the hottest thing on YouTube at the moment (18,222 subscribers, 1.5 million views)" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/aug/28/islonelygirl15 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/aug/28/islo... 18,222 subscribers! And they're still talking about it a decade later. Meanwhile rocketboom.com was serving up QuickTime that required a plugin to install before you could view a video and claiming 400,000+ downloads per episode. (Later investigated and disproved by BusinessWeek.) Early web video was a debacle. So many shady companies. Cool times, though. Fun to watch the history get re-written. Note how CAA was in on it from nearly day one.