The YouTube Time Machine

http://yttm.tv/v/1934

by kfarzaneh • 16 years ago

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mkramlich• 16 years ago

great idea!

could be useful resource for folks studying history of a certain year or period

andre3k1• 16 years ago

Awesome, but the "Watch Next Video" button doesn't seem to be working for me (starting in 1860).

All in all, the video does make me realize just how far we've come in 100 years. I'm so happy to be during the turn of this century versus the turn of the last century.

natrius• 16 years ago

I'm sure they said they same thing at the turn of last century. And the century before.

kiba2• 16 years ago

But this could be the century where people will be comtemplating more than 100 years lifespan!

Imagine all the old people becoming youthful overnight, changing plans for hundred of million of people. No longer will they remain feeble adults living in their twilight years, they will be badass on the market using their superior experience to out-compete us youngsters.

planckscnst• 16 years ago

The "watch next video" is meant to move to another video from the same year; to move to the next year, you either move the sider or edit the URL.

pontifier• 16 years ago

So looking at this, and extrapolating I see some people in the future picking a time period and living there in all but fact. I envision the matrix, but set in whatever time period people choose. I can see people choosing to live in say the roaring 20's or the 1970's...

In fact, now that I think about it places like that do exist... While on vacation I think I visited a place where people lived and worked as if they were in colonial times.

daychilde• 16 years ago

I think "vacation" is a critical consideration.

I'd love to spend a few days living 'in' a particular time period. And then get back to reality.

zaidf• 16 years ago

If ajax was ever under-utilized, it would be on a site like this. Great idea. Annoying refreshes.

targz• 16 years ago

Much agree. I see how you want to have a unique url for each year. I think that's a cool idea too, though each time you slide I think it's fine if the url doesn't update. Maybe unique year urls are only for inbound links.

niels• 16 years ago

You can use unique urls with ajax. Just use location.hash (url/#something).

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