My, How the Sift Has Changed
I know this has been brought up a few times over the years, but something spurred me to go check out what VideoSift originally looked like and I got a chuckle when I was reminded how far our user interface has come. For your viewing pleasure, I give you ancient VideoSift of March 2006:
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Hmm. I'm not sure what happened in the past day but when I posted this, those links were showing the proper page layout (with colors and positioning etc.) but now it's just plain text.
Is everyone seeing no styles at all like I am?
- Front Page - http://web.archive.org/web/20060315170025/http://www.videosift.com/
- The then newly launched Blog (now known as Sift Talk) where James Roe wonders if "the ukulele video" will ever be surpassed in the #1 position - http://web.archive.org/web/20060315170651/www.videosift.com/blog/
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Hmm. I'm not sure what happened in the past day but when I posted this, those links were showing the proper page layout (with colors and positioning etc.) but now it's just plain text.
Is everyone seeing no styles at all like I am?
11 Comments
StingrayAnd it's s still #1: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-ukelele-playing-you-will-ever-see-Jake-Shimabukuro
But this is only behind by 62 votes: http://www.videosift.com/video/Best-home-made-lightsaber-duel-ever
Let's amass a campaign to overtake it!
notarobotIt may be interesting to note that one of the above videos doesn't have any downvotes.
KrupoFun digging up the old vids...
Ah.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvreCcd0HZs
Default history channel search didn't see this until I went advanced and searched sift wide...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Funkentelechy-vs-The-Placebo-Syndrome
kronosposeidonDid you guys have to embed videos with punch cards back then, after you connected with your lightning-fast 300 baud modems on your Commodore 64s? (Except for dag, of course. He was fetching coffee and LSD for Steve Jobs in his garage.)
brycewi19^Back in the day of cathode tubes and pigeon carriers.
dotdudeThis video got tossed around a bit:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Car-Jumps-150-Foot-Ramp
nibiyabiYeah Lucky, it worked at first and now it's just text.
antWoah, I have been on VS too long since I saw myself on it in 2006. When did VS oficially start in public?
The whole archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://videosift.com
ant>> ^brycewi19:
^Back in the day of cathode tubes and pigeon carriers.
Speaking of pigeons, what happened to Pigeon? http://www.videosift.com/member/pigeon
ant>> ^Krupo:
Fun digging up the old vids...
Ah.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvreCcd0HZs
Default history channel search didn't see this until I went advanced and searched sift wide...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Funkentelechy-vs-The-Placebo-Syndrome
I just promoted that old video for kicks!
James RoeI feel like I have been summoned to this thread...
Things certainly have changed.
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