Videos from a YouTube's early days

The following videos are from YouTube's early days, i.e., they are from 2012 or before, but still worth watching. There is something about them that made me still remember them, many years later. And nobody asks us to like, share and subscribe.

I do understand why today's YouTubers try to make “the algorithm” work for them. It is a good thing that people can make a living by making these videos, but I sometimes miss the amateurisch playfulness of the early days.

Birdbox Studio: Sketchy Guard

Clarke and Dawe: The Front Fell Off

Ernest Cline: Dance, Monkeys, Dance!

This video was uploaded by Sérgio Lopes.

Kirsten Dirksen: Thoreauvian simple living

Richard Feynman: The Beauty of the Flower

This video was uploaded by FreeScienceLectures.

Ted Forbes: Composition in Photographyh

Ze Frank: True Facts About the Angler Fish

Lasse Gjertsen: Amateur

And there is a tribute by TheGunnerStorm.

Spencer Laboda: Concrete Buffer Gone Wild (a.k.a. the angry machine)

modernwarfarecheats: A Horse Named Arrrrrrrrr

Philhelenes: Dust That Sings

Michael Rubbo: Bike it or not

Michael Rubbo: The Waltz of the Bikes

Marquese Scott: Pumped Up Kicks / Dubstep

Ola Simonsson: Music For One Apartment And Six Drummers

Tangospring: Charla & Oleh -- Tito Schipa's "Cumparsita"

Karis Tees (and her dog): Singing "Viva La Vida"

Torley: How to play piano like Philip Glass

Vicco von Bülow: Jägerchor, Der Freischütz

This video was uploaded by Egon Hilgers.

Some of Walter Lewins best lines

This video was uploaded by mohrjaffas.

Lev Yilmaz: Youth & Aging

I was surprised how many of the videos that came to my mind are still online. On the other hand, some of my all-time favorites didn't make it into this list because they are simply not old enough, but I felt I needed to make the cutoff somewhere.