Watch an animated history of YouTube’s homepage
4096, a YouTube channel that mostly makes animated histories of gadgets like Nintendo consoles and Nokia phones, has most recently published a history of all the changes YouTube has made to its homepage since 2005.
The video, at two minutes long, is a nice length for a documentary, in my opinion. It’s nice to start doing a task and be done with it just two minutes later.
However, this task is also going to make you a little bit sad. The original YouTube homepage surfaced weird, obviously homemade uploads. Even as it grew enough to warrant sections for spotlighting featured videos, the selections were delightfully bizarre. Until about 2007. That’s when you start to see viral acoustic song covers and boring, mammoth channels like…