Stuff that should be more famous

[Queen Michael]

There's this YouTube clip called Me at the zoo that's pretty extraordinary, since it's the very first YouTube video ever.

Spoiler: Watch it here if you feel like it

I'd never heard of this clip until I googled "first youtube clip ever", and once I'd watched it I wondered why it wasn't more famous. YouTube is huge. It's enormous. Heck, it's Brobdingagian. So how come nobody ever talks about Me at the zoo? It should be as famous as "A small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind" or "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."

So is there anything or anyone that you think are surprisingly obscure?

 

[King Billi]

I guess it must have just been overshadowed by the "second youtube clip ever"...

Incidentally what was the second youtube clip ever?

 

[hazabaza1]

Because it's a boring video?

It's nice to talk about cool achievements and all but unless it's something like a really impressive easily noticed achievement nobody really cares about a boring video.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I guess it's pretty meh. I can't even say it's so boring it's bad. It's just meh.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Who cares what the first youtube video was?

I mean really, who cares? Do you care what the first Twitter post was? What about the first Myspace post, or the first video on pornhub?

What exactly makes you think that youtube is worthy of being remembered the same way that the moon landing and the invention of the telephone are?

 

[Queen Michael]

Who cares what the first youtube video was?

I mean really, who cares? Do you care what the first Twitter post was? What about the first Myspace post, or the first video on pornhub?

What exactly makes you think that youtube is worthy of being remembered the same way that the moon landing and the invention of the telephone are?

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life. But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

 

[Julius Terrell]

This guys is the dancing machine overlord! He needs to be on TV or something. His videos just don't get the attention they deserve.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life. But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

Well, every time you watch Justin Bieber on satellite TV, you are owing it both to youtube and the space race.

 

[BQE]

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life. But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

Now, BQE is no space-ologist, but didn't the moon landing.....set the precedent that humans are now able to travel to the moon? Changing humanity in the sense of setting a milestone in the progress toward outer space?

Many people may have not had some of the first cars or telephones, but they certainly changed the world. Or more accurately, their creation the first event in a chain of events that changed the world.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Who cares what the first youtube video was?

I mean really, who cares? Do you care what the first Twitter post was? What about the first Myspace post, or the first video on pornhub?

What exactly makes you think that youtube is worthy of being remembered the same way that the moon landing and the invention of the telephone are?

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life. But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

Saying it changed people's lives is kind of a cop out answer though. There are tons of things that change people's lives, but which are utterly unimportant/uninteresting. Youtube isn't that important. It's just another website on the internet, and if they hadn't popularized video sharing, another site would have, like Vimeo. The truth of the matter is, Youtube is like Myspace, it's important now, and in 10 years it'll be a distant memory and everyone will be using something bigger and better. It's not that important in the grand scheme of things. The internet is what changed the world, and youtube is just a small part of that.

 

[Queen Michael]

Who cares what the first youtube video was?

I mean really, who cares? Do you care what the first Twitter post was? What about the first Myspace post, or the first video on pornhub?

What exactly makes you think that youtube is worthy of being remembered the same way that the moon landing and the invention of the telephone are?

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life. But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

Saying it changed people's lives is kind of a cop out answer though. There are tons of things that change people's lives, but which are utterly unimportant/uninteresting. Youtube isn't that important. It's just another website on the internet, and if they hadn't popularized video sharing, another site would have, like Vimeo. The truth of the matter is, Youtube is like Myspace, it's important now, and in 10 years it'll be a distant memory and everyone will be using something bigger and better. It's not that important in the grand scheme of things. The internet is what changed the world, and youtube is just a small part of that.

Sure, but you could say the same thing about the moonlanding. The space race is what changed people's lives, and the moon landing was just a small part of that.

 

[FPLOON]

Do you care what the first Twitter post was? What about the first Myspace post, or the first video on pornhub?

It funny because that last question, involving pornhub, I'm kinda curious about... but, then I'll probably say "Oh... Okay..." afterwards and then find a video that's more of my taste, anyway...

OT: This Zelda rap right here:
After Smosh did their Zelda rap, this video became harder and harder to find... and the more times I listen to it, the more times I both cringe and laugh at its overall delivery... The lyrics sound like the dude was high when he wrote it and I still wish there was an instrumental version of this beat... so that I, too, can sound like I had too much Lon Lon Milk to drink...

It's not as good as Duane and Brando's Zelda rap, in my opinion... but I still wish this rap, in particular, got more recognition...

 

[NoeL]

OT: This Zelda rap right here:

Oh God... I listened to about 20 seconds of that before I had to turn it off. I can't lyrics like that - makes me sick.

OT: John Safran's stuff. Hilarious TV, but since it aired on SBS barely anyone over 30 knows who he is.

 

[Dirge Eterna]

Who cares what the first youtube video was?

I mean really, who cares? Do you care what the first Twitter post was? What about the first Myspace post, or the first video on pornhub?

What exactly makes you think that youtube is worthy of being remembered the same way that the moon landing and the invention of the telephone are?

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life. But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

I try my hardest to never hear a beiber song. Hell I actively avoid popular radio on purpose to avoid him and the vast majority of popular shit on a stick that is most of modern music. I do listen to new bands and actively search for them but maybe 1% of that search is on YouTube and most of that is linking off a band I already enjoy. I have no idea why they even have a music video award show as there aren't any music video channels anymore. YouTube is 98% fluff mixed in with a few good things. I would say it only changed the world of teenage girls and people way into pop culture like hipsters. I haven't read anything specific that states how much of the Arab spring uprisings were based off YouTube videos so I could be off by a few percent.

Oh and the moon landing energized the entire world and jump started a great deal of the technology that we use today. If we had never gone to the moon many, many things that we have today would either not exist yet or be significantly less advanced.

 

[Stu35]

Fair question, and my answer is this: The moonlanding, astounding accomplishment though it may be, didn't actually affect people's lives that much. If you decided to ignore it, it had no impact on your life.

Oooooohh... Very, very, very debatable. If not flat out wrong.

I would argue that, whether or not you're aware of the moon landing, or even believe it happened (because there's still plenty of conspiracy nuts who insist it never happened), there is pretty much no way you can go through modern life in the Western world without utilising technology developed or inspired by attempts to land on the moon.

Conversely:

But YouTube has had a huge impact on the world. Just take Justin Bieber. Every single time you hear a Justin Bieber song, you feel YoutUbe's impact on your life. Anyone can share vidoes with the rest of the planet now. Sure, there are other video sites where you can do that, but YouTube is almost always the one that people actually use. The moon landing is a cool thing, but YouTube actually managed to change the world.

I could go my entire life without ever looking at Youtube, and aside from some mildly amusing videos about cats, or the occasional sporting highlights I didn't catch on TV... Well, I wouldn't be missing anything.

In all honesty, I'll agree with you - Youtube did change the world, it has changed the way we interact with one another in the developed world (along with Instagram, Facebook, etc, etc, etc). However, if you're honestly trying to argue that the ripples caused by the implications of some dude being able to show the world what he did at the zoo were somehow greater than the implications of some dude actually going from the blue one to the white one...

Well, I honestly don't know what to say to that, it's as patently untrue to me as the idea that 2+2=19.



More on topic:

Rugby League should be far, far more famous and popular than it is. As it stands most people even in the United Kingdom (where it originates) know nothing about this sport, they prefer Rugby Union (a far inferior product for the viewing audience)...

As for the rest of the world: There's a World Cup on right now, and the United States of America are doing far better than expected, yet I'm willing to bet not a single American on this forum knew there was a World Cup on, and that's even if they knew that Rugby League is a thing.

Seriously. I urge everyone who reads this post, and who has even a passing interest in athletic accomplishment (I appreciate this is not everyone on the forum, perhaps not even a majority), go look up this game - It's awesome.


Use Youtube. Which is, apparently, an even bigger thing than the moon landing.

 

[Shymer]

There's this YouTube clip called Me at the zoo that's pretty extraordinary, since it's the very first YouTube video ever.

...

I wondered why it wasn't more famous. YouTube is huge. It's enormous. Heck, it's Brobdingagian. So how come nobody ever talks about Me at the zoo? It should be as famous as "A small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind" or "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."

So is there anything or anyone that you think are surprisingly obscure?

I think there's a big difference between the first telephone call, or first man to stand on the surface of the moon to having a video uploaded to a specific web-site. It was not the first video on a web site, the first video on the Internet, or anything revolutionary at all. YouTube is a company using well-worn Internet technology, not representative of a novel human achievement.

By all means YouTube should celebrate its milestones as a company. Some large companies have museums, archivists and historians that work for them. However I cannot see it as a big thing for humanity.

However - +1 for referencing Swift.

 

[SamuraiFromHell]

This hockey game:

And anything involving zombies should be almost invisible. I just don't get why they are so loved.

 

[Barbas]

Spoiler

This hockey game:

And anything involving zombies should be almost invisible. I just don't get why they are so loved.

Where did you find this gem? I demand to know at once, those graphics are f**king flawless! If only real ice hockey involved smacking your opponents into orbit.

 

[Julius Terrell]

Spoiler

This hockey game:

And anything involving zombies should be almost invisible. I just don't get why they are so loved.

Where did you find this gem? I demand to know at once, those graphics are f**king flawless! If only real ice hockey involved smacking your opponents into orbit.

agreed! Brings back those days of playing super dodge ball on the nes.

edit: Maybe I got confused as to what the OP is asking. I thought this thread was about people on youtube that should be more famous. Not just affects of youtube on the world. I thought I was answering the OP question in my earlier post.

 

[FPLOON]

OT: This Zelda rap right here:

Oh God... I listened to about 20 seconds of that before I had to turn it off. I can't lyrics like that - makes me sick.

That's why this rap needs more recognition... to show how NOT to do a Zelda rap...

Plus, the last bit of lyrics always makes me laugh:

Spoiler: Cringe-like confusion?

"I roll on the ground
In a ball
Into a tree
And look what motherfuckin' fell out
A rupee
A rupee, a rupee, a rupee, a rupee, man
A big ol' fucking rupee
That shit was fucking yellow
And the next one was blue
And I couldn't fit it in my fuckin' wallet
That shit fucking sucks
Had to put it back under the rock
I gotta get the fucking beetle that fucking on the fucking wall
I gotta hit it with a boomerang
Get them shit
Fucking things up there
I can't even reach it
I need to get that boomerang
Or fucking
(Incoherent babble) and climb there to get it
I don't know
I don't need the boomerang anymore...
...
... (20 seconds later)
...
Fucking thing's up there...
(beat slowly fades out)"[footnote]The parts not italicized are where the rappers just talking instead of legit free-styling...[/footnote]

And I though the part where the rapper doesn't know what words rhymes with "accurate", despite using the words "immaculate" and "it" beforehand, was cringe-like funny, to me... (So much to learn from this song...)

Edit: Spoiler tag for lyrics...