This website unearths YouTube’s lost and forgotten iPhone clips

The “IMG_0001” website features a framework with an aged TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic distant that you tin click to commencement watching random YouTube videos from implicit a decennary agone that were recorded and uploaded from devices specified arsenic 2010’s iPhone 4.

As described connected the site, determination was a caller (at the time) “Send to YouTube” diagnostic connected iPhones betwixt 2009 and 2012 that fto you upload recordings straight from your iPhone for anyone to spot — which often aren’t accompanied by immoderate substance descriptions.

Each video is titled thing similar IMG_XXXX, which follows the default naming conventions of recordings from iPhones (and many, galore cameras).

As you’re presented with videos specified arsenic this random achromatic feline that jumps astatine the cameraman, immoderate Wu-Tang Clan concertgoer, oregon the homies jumping into a swimming pool, the tract shows you the upload day and the fig of views. View counts are nether 10 astir of the time. If you click connected the numbers, it takes you to the archetypal YouTube leafage for the video truthful you tin remark oregon conscionable instrumentality a infinitesimal to admit however immortalizing YouTube makes the world.

If this tract is ringing a bell, you’re astir apt reasoning astir a akin task called Astronaut from 2017. It had a akin thought to IMG_0001 wherever you ticker archetypal filename videos; however, Astronaut focused connected videos that could beryllium recently uploaded (with debased presumption counts) and lone showed tiny portions of each 1 unless you intervened.