Your very first YouTube video

[LauriJ]

Do you remember the time when you first discovered YouTube? What was the very first video you saw on the site?

 

[Artina89]

This one:


He goes by Milkwad now, and is very funny. I would definitely recommend checking out his videos. I can't remember how I stumbled across his Nintendocentral channel, but I have been a long time follower.

 

[Dalek Caan]

The earliest I can remember is:


By now the video is 9 years old, which means I was about 12 when it came out. It took a while for our family to get internet.

 

[Queen Michael]

I'm pretty sure it was either Chad Vader or the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! the abridged series.

 

[Ratty]

Honestly I really have no idea dude. It was probably something lame someone linked in an IRC channel in 2006 or 2007. The first thing I distinctly remember watching was the Nostalgia Critic's review of "Cartoon All Stars" though.


Come to think of it I do remember being shown that through a link in an IRC. So it might actually be the first one.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

It was in 2005 and it was an episode of that love Hina anime. I had no idea what youtube or that series was like at the time. A friend told me that I shouldn't get into that sort of thing. Then a guy friend said I should absolutely get into that sort of thing.

I watched the beginning of an episode where all the girls are working in a restaurant and speak one line as introduction. When it got to the girl with an atrocious country accent, I clicked out of the video and didn't return to that site for a year.

 

[MorganL4]

lolz no. I was in High School when Youtube came out. At that point there was no such thing as a "hit channel" There weren't "Youtubers" or "Let's Players" At that point Youtube existed mainly of old flash memes that people had turned into youtube videos, and tutorials for random stuff. I probably first used it for information on some school project. Possibly a Windows XP how to of some sort, would be my best guess.


I made an account about 4 years ago, and this is the first video I liked:

 

[Zontar]

The classic. I remember when this had less then a million views. I didn't think that view count was possible (I was young and naive).

 

[MorganL4]

The classic. I remember when this had less then a million views. I didn't think that view count was possible (I was young and naive).

God, remember when the term "viral video" still had meaning, and it wasn't viral because marketing company A had decided to pay a guy with a botnet for views?

 

[Fijiman]

Dear god that was long ago, but the first video I ever watched on YouTube was probably this.

Spoiler

I used to love the shit out of this song. Still like it, but not nearly as much as when I first heard it back in middle school.

 

[briankoontz]

An earlier version of this was the first video I remember watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuvOVH0aSQ

 

[Hero of Lime]

The classic. I remember when this had less then a million views. I didn't think that view count was possible (I was young and naive).

That's one of my first ones too! I remember my sister would come home on the weekends from college and show my brother and I these videos on a strange site called "Youtube" that her friends had recommended. We had such bad internet back then so it took forever to load.

OT: I believe this was the first one. It was in 2005 I believe. Though it says in came out in 2006, maybe it's not the original.


Here's another!

 

[FPLOON]

Nope... But, I do remember that it was around 2008/2009 where I was finding all of these "Mario/Zelda"-esque(?) raps on Youtube that either sounded "corny" as fuck or "what the fuck" as fuck...

Spoiler: Link Rap

Spoiler: 5-3 Federation

Spoiler: B.E.N.E.F.I.T.

Spoiler: Super Brooklyn

All in all, it all lead to finding the awesomeness that was The Adventures of Duane and Brando!!

Spoiler: Sonic

Honorable mention to this video below for introducing me into Touhou around the same time of watching those above videos:

Spoiler: Touhou - Locked Girl

(Wow... This whole post was a trip down memory lane, I guess...)

 

[Gennadios]

Tokyo Breakfast. A friend of mine told me about some funny video and produced a link to youtube. That was literally the first time I've ever heard of it.

I won't provide a link to the video but it's searchable, it's a little... offensive.

 

[Super Cyborg]

I don't remember really using You Tube until my brother showed me YuGiOh abridged. Beyond that, I didn't use You Tube much except listening to music. I do watch a number of Jesse Cox lets plays and Fan Fridays, but the one's I keep checking back for are the Cox n Crendor animated shorts. Whenever I want to laugh, I watch those, especially the Choking on the Goat Meat one. I do occasionally watch Total Biscuit, cause he seems to have a lot of interesting things to say about the games industry, which I lack a lot of knowledge about.

 

[Roxas1359]

First video I found was sadly deleted by it's creator, and I don't remember the name of it sadly. I found YouTube back when it started in 2006, but I couldn't be on for too long because I had dial up internet, and I had that until 2008...
I did however like the video when I first made my account in 2007, so I could always watch it, but when I went to check on the video, it was gone. T^T
Wish I could remember it.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Jeez I can't remember that for back. I think it might have been the scary ghost episode of Zack and Cody that they weren't allowed to show on TV

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Uhhhhhhmmmmmm noooooo, i can barely recall what i ate yesterday

Let me guess

 

[Total LOLige]

I have no idea but you can bet your house that it was probably violating copyright law.