YouTube Time Machine Serves Up Videos From The Good Old Days

Feeling a little nostalgic? Wishing you could turn back the clock somehow?

Well, thanks to a new website, you can re-experience the "good old days" of video.

Justin Johnson has created the "YouTube Time Machine," a web video platform that groups clips by year and serves up the videos of yesteryear, from the familiar to the never-before-seen.

You simply click on a year, and the YouTube Time Machine plays a video from that year, chosen at random. You can also choose to see a video that falls into one of seven categories--video games, television, commercials, current events, sports, movies, and music.

The video collection includes clips dating back to 1860, although the oldest clip doesn't actually play a video, but features a single selection titled "The First Sound Ever Recorded (1860)." As we perused the site, clicking on the year 1970 served up a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial from 1970. Leaping forward to 1989 presented us with an introduction to Babar.

According to Geekosystem, "YouTube Time Machine is 'still very very alpha,' in the words of the creators: This can become a little annoying when you refresh only to find that the video you're looking for has been deleted, which, for me, happened more frequently when looking at earlier years. At that, when you fall into a rhythm (again, I had an easier time doing this in more recent years) it turns up unexpected surprises."

Click here to hop into the YouTube Time Machine.

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[LMPE]

11:04 PM on 09/12/2010

Damn! Still can't find "I Love the 1850s"!

[J Accuse]

08:57 PM on 09/11/2010

Does it play all the legally above-boar­d music that the record companies illegally threatened and bullied spineless Youtube into erasing? If not, FAIL.

[henrypapillon]

08:56 PM on 09/11/2010

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[ATomCat3]

12:17 PM on 09/11/2010

nice idea, still quite "alpha" indeed... but why all those fast food commercial­s?

[henrypapillon]

08:57 PM on 09/11/2010

I think they meant Alpo.

[JScott]

02:42 PM on 09/13/2010

Oh what about local TV shows and commercial­s....Dial Dial Dial Chevrolet 2 blks off the Santa Ana Fwy 11980 E. Firestone Dial Chevrolet da da....Pete Ellis Dodge Firestone Exit Southgate.­....
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[frank day]

06:36 PM on 09/10/2010

Hey, why didn't I think of that?

[henrypapillon]

08:58 PM on 09/11/2010

Too buzzed ? Picking toes one Saturday night? Too busy straighten­ing your underwear and sock drawers?

[frank day]

09:19 PM on 09/11/2010

LOL, guilty to all of the above!

[BlindChance]

02:21 PM on 09/10/2010

I like this!

[Uosdwis]

12:17 PM on 09/10/2010

There should be something in between "pass" and "viral," like "interesti­ng." It's kinda like VH1's "I love the-" without the celebrity snark and goes back further than the 70s. Possibly useful for history class.

[scottarino]

06:58 PM on 09/09/2010

wow. simply amazing. that is all.