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>You could have made a parallel argument, before Youtube, about how people wanted only professional content, why a service for user created content would never

by antt 8y ago

>You could have made a parallel argument, before Youtube, about how people wanted only professional content, why a service for user created content would never work etc, because that's all that had worked, up to that point. I remember in the early days people in the entertainment industry dismissing youtube as a useless piracy website which could never deliver any worth while content by itself. This was in 2006 when the only real use for youtube was to watch music videos because of the 10 minute video limit. A lot can change in 10 years once the base technology is in place.

InternetUser 8y ago
YouTube, launched in early 2005, actually instated the 10-minute limit in 2007 or 2008; I remember watching plenty of full TV shows in the first couple of years, and I remember that one of the most popular and constantly recommended were episodes of "Chappelle's Show" (noted in the Viacom lawsuit that could have destroyed YouTube, had Google not owned it by them) and there were also uploads of the Comedy Central version of "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" and 1980s and '90s SNL episodes. Then there was the 10-minute limit, then 15 [0]--and there were tons of broadcast-TV uploads that were divided up in such segments (such as the very popular "MoxNewsDotCom" channel's uploads of the 2008 U.S. election debates)--and then by the end of 2010, YouTube started allowing videos of any length, and I recall seeing novelty videos of some repeating loops for several or dozens of hours [1][2]. [0] Undated, but still showing up: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71673?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71673?hl=en&co=GEN... [1] "THE LONGEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE - 596.5 HOURS" - Dec 14, 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cF1m6Jxu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cF1m6Jxu8 https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIYAkIECAESAA%253D%253D&search_query=longest+video https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIYAkIECAESAA%253D%253D&...

by antt 8y ago

InternetUser 8y ago

YouTube, launched in early 2005, actually instated the 10-minute limit in 2007 or 2008; I remember watching plenty of full TV shows in the first couple of years, and I remember that one of the most popular and constantly recommended were episodes of "Chappelle's Show" (noted in the Viacom lawsuit that could have destroyed YouTube, had Google not owned it by them) and there were also uploads of the Comedy Central version of "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" and 1980s and '90s SNL episodes. Then there was the 10-minute limit, then 15 [0]--and there were tons of broadcast-TV uploads that were divided up in such segments (such as the very popular "MoxNewsDotCom" channel's uploads of the 2008 U.S. election debates)--and then by the end of 2010, YouTube started allowing videos of any length, and I recall seeing novelty videos of some repeating loops for several or dozens of hours [1][2]. [0] Undated, but still showing up: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71673?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71673?hl=en&co=GEN... [1] "THE LONGEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE - 596.5 HOURS" - Dec 14, 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cF1m6Jxu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cF1m6Jxu8 https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIYAkIECAESAA%253D%253D&search_query=longest+video https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIYAkIECAESAA%253D%253D&...