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Hi people of HN, I'm glad some of you like this little project of mine! BTW in case is not clear it (automatically) shows videos from exactly 20 years ago, so r

by notgood 11y ago

Hi people of HN, I'm glad some of you like this little project of mine! BTW in case is not clear it (automatically) shows videos from exactly 20 years ago, so right now is showing videos from July of 1995. If you wonder where I get the data is by a script scraping an awesome forum called ukmix. I also filter out low-quality videos by calculating the likes/dislikes ratio and view count (data from YouTube's API), it also tries to filter out lyrics videos and other non-official music videos. Feedback is welcome. Enjoy.

brandonmenc 11y ago
Very cool project. Can you let us adjust the time? I'd really like to see MTV from 30 years ago.
- notgood 11y ago
  10, 30 and 40 are easy to do because I have sources for those, so I will add that functionality soon (any other time frame would be a lot of work so probably not going to do it)
walterbell 11y ago
Your time travel portal works really well! How do you avoid ads being inserted into the stream?
- notgood 11y ago
  I think AdBlock may help. BTW those ads are added by YouTube (not me)