How the Video Age Was Born, Decades Before YouTube: Documentary

1,008 views · Published 6 March 2015 · 8:35 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: Gizmodo · 2015 · Education

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Video is the defining medium of the 21st century, thanks to the rise of the internet. But its origins go back way further, to the late 1960s, when the first portable video devices emerged. It was a watershed moment in history—and our short documentary explains why.

Read more here: 
http://gizmodo.com/how-the-video-age-was-born-decades-before-youtube-1505795883

Video by Michael Hession

Music:
The Little Radio That Loved Me by Candlegravity
Always by Candlegravity
Untitled #5 by Michael Hession

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