For the Oldies

[BenBowden]

Some things I remember:

-Medals/awards. I would fake my country to get some.
-Groups. I remember join a few but I never used them?
-Posting on Peoples Walls (not the lame discussion tab they have now)
-Not being able to change your name or have spaces in it. So basically your display name and url were the same.
-Bulletins. You could update the bulletin when you did wanted, I guess.
-"friends" because you could be friends just like facebook
-when you didn't need a google+ to comment
-not strict passwords. My brothers password was "L" and then I watched him change it to "K" this was 2008 and now I don't think any site will let you have a one letter password. At one time my password was "ice."
-sub4sub and then people would unsub a few days later
-no channel had hit 1 million subscribers
- the subscribe button was yellow
-give a youtube video a 1-5 star rating.


Fun times. . . I guess.

Yes please. I loved 5 star ratings and posting on a channels wall!

 

[marka87uk]

I got mine in September 2006 (prior to its purchase by Google), but only began to actively post videos from about 2012! My channel can be accessed via a /user/ link or just youtube.com/myusername.

At the time YouTube looked like something this (taken in July 2006 apparently)! (I miss seeing ratings by video thumbnails - it made it so much easier to avoid not-so-good videos!)

 

[XXLRay]

I remember having more (smaller) thumbnails in my subscriptions view so that I could see more at once.