This is fantastically nerdy, I just love it.

The V&A has added the first YouTube video to its collection, via a reconstructed watchpage that shows it as it was in 2006.

Because how else to you collect and curate the experience of watching a video IN THE PAST?

Full details on the process here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/acquiring-an-early-youtube-watch-page-and-its-first-ever-video

Well worth a read, it's fascinating!

#museums #collections #YouTube #VictoriaAndAlbertMuseumVA #TimeBasedMedia #preservation

Euronews: ‘Me at the zoo’: First ever YouTube upload acquired by London’s V&A museum. “The museum has acquired a reconstruction of an early YouTube watch page, featuring the first video ever uploaded to the site: Jawed Karim’s Me at the zoo. Visitors will be able to see a recording of the YouTube page as they would have 20-years ago, but without the harmonious electronic dial-up modem sounds.”