YouTube Time Machine Serves Up Videos From The Good Old Days

YouTube Time Machine Takes You Back To 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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