Data Horde

Remembering YouTube’s Lost Unlisted Videos

On this day, 12 years ago, YouTube introduced unlisted videos as a compromise between a public and a private video. Perfect for sharing your history project with friends, video outtakes, or just about anything you didn't want cluttering your channel.

By themadprogramer May 12, 2022History2 Comments

Editorial History

Pulling Rank: The Legacy of Alexa Internet

Alexa is shutting down and this is an unfortunate loss for the web archiving community, for reasons that are not obvious...

By themadprogramer April 29, 2022Editorial, History1 Comment

History

The Legacy Of MadV, The YouTuber Time Forgot

MadV was an early YouTuber whose videos included music, illusions and collaboration videos. Notably, he organized the "One World" collab which was at one point the most responded video on YouTube.

By themadprogramer April 5, 2021HistoryNo Comments

History

Back in a Flash: The Super Mario 63 Community!

In honor of Flashcember: the history and state of the Super Mario 63 community and how they've prepared for the discontinuation of Flash Player.

By themadprogramer December 4, 2020History10 Comments

Community Translations After September 28

History

[Obsoleted] YouTube removed community translations, but there is a workaround!

Even with YouTube having disabled community contributions, there is a workaround you can use to continue to add new translations on videos!

By themadprogramer October 12, 2020History2 Comments

History News

The Untold Story of why YouTube is removing Community Contributions; YouTube CC History pt. 4

In the later half of the 2010’s YouTube began putting a greater emphasis on international accessibility over accessibility for the deaf. This change in policy, alienated the Deaf Community who began to criticize the increasing inadequacy of closed captions on the website. The ensuing events would bring about the rise and fall of the feature known as community contributions.

By themadprogramer September 18, 2020History, News1 Comment

History Op-Ed

What Was It Doing There? Quick Anecdotes Of Games We Found In The Weirdest Locations

Imagine never being able to play the one game you enjoyed so much as a kid. The thought of a beloved game being lost would scare most gamers: Mario Kart gone without a trace, Sonic and Knuckles thought to be a fever dream. However impossible this may seem, for many this has become a scary reality. In the world of web games, the internet is an ever-changing place. A game can be played one minute and gone the next, leaving only mere mentions of it from a few people, stranded in an ancient forum, hosted on a potato...

By flashfire42 September 15, 2020History, Op-EdNo Comments

History

Scaling the Waterfall, Captions for All; YouTube CC History pt.3

In the early half of the 2010's YouTube would work to increase the percentage of captioned videos on the platform, through various means. This was especially motivated by a rivalry with an up-and-coming subtitling platform, Amara.

By themadprogramer September 12, 2020HistoryNo Comments

History Tutorial

What’s in a Flash game? (What are .SWF files?)

Many of you 2000s kids probably grew up playing Flash games on your web browser as a kid. But have you ever wondered how exactly a Flash game works? The…

By Doritos Man September 7, 2020History, TutorialNo Comments

History

Pioneering Online Accessibility; YouTube CC History pt.2

In August 2008, Google finally initiated the migration of the closed captions infrastructure from Google Video to YouTube. The following months are nothing short of crazy! Editor improvements, caption translation, automatic captioning and more... A lot of heart and soul was poured into making video more accessible than ever!

By themadprogramer September 4, 2020HistoryNo Comments