WarpStream - YouTube for Vintage Computers!

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Today we're checking out a new addition to ProtoWeb called WarpStream - which aims to re-create the early RU-vid experience on older computers!
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@LGR 5 месяцев назад

Oh sweet, I didn’t realize this had gone live! It’s really such a cool project and I was more than happy to have LGR things included, thanks for putting this together and spreading the word :)

@tacodark 5 месяцев назад

Didn’t expect LGR to be here!

@nathantherandomguy1935 5 месяцев назад

I think this is one of the coolest projects I have ever seen, you defiantly should check it out.

@ACT8113 5 месяцев назад

Oh dang it's you!!!

@Moon-ge8mc 5 месяцев назад

You guys aren't the same person???

@presidentkiller 5 месяцев назад

@@Moon-ge8mc I don't think so, though it might explain why you never see them together... 🤔

@ImNotLoganA 5 месяцев назад

That's super cool! The old RU-vid had a much different, more personal feel to it than it does now

@TheXavierEvera 5 месяцев назад

it's slogan back then was literally 'broadcast yourself' so go figure i guess

@shawnstillman736 5 месяцев назад

Yep then Google bought it and made it Their tube..

@solarstrike33 5 месяцев назад

@@shawnstillman736 They bought it in 2006, when that motto was still there. That being said, pre-2013 YT is still a great vibe...

@Clay3613 5 месяцев назад

It was also way worse. No documentary, retro tech or media analysis channels.

@TeganCantEven 5 месяцев назад

That can really apply to the entire internet

@gatto_furry 5 месяцев назад

Warpstream is pretty cool! I USED IT ON A WII

@GameMaker3_5 5 месяцев назад

RU-vid ON WII IS BACK!!!

@lexluthermiester 5 месяцев назад

It never ceases to amaze me how far we've come in just 15 years!

@GrazzaD 5 месяцев назад

Everything now is filled with ads...not like before!

@Xurikyo 5 месяцев назад

but people act as if it's better to be fisted a face full of advertisements, utterbrainwashing. @@GrazzaD

@FlooferLand 5 месяцев назад

@@GrazzaD the ads dont really matter. they gotta make a profit somehow still. its the fact RU-vid is so much more corporate and less personal now, so much more main-stream too. I was too young to even know how to use the internet back in the day but i specifically grew up around 2014-2017 youtube and it used to be so much better. Now all website designs are flat, pages are less customized, clickbait and watch time is milked. I miss the old internet

@CommissarChaotic 4 месяца назад

@@FlooferLand Yeah.. I feel that a lot of RU-vidrs are "retiring" these days because of their algorithm too. It wants to run them like machines because RU-vid wants to compete with TikTok but TikTok is very impersonal just more on the content flow unlike RU-vid is or was I guess so now theyre just ruining their roots and stuff. Shorts was already bad because RU-vidrs have to compete with people who can just make a viral short and just take all the traffic there where the Shorts area is similar to TikTok.

@9852323 5 месяцев назад

I wish it was more for the functionality of older computers rather than the nostalgia or experience. But still really cool and useful. I remember when RU-vid just straight up worked on a windows 98 PC without any issues

@BilisNegra 5 месяцев назад

Well, graphic adapters from yesteryear can only do so much, so watching today's YT at high-ish resolution on a 20-year-old, or slightly newer computer is simply not going to happen. You can't do miracles. On the other hand, if what matters is computing on the cheap and not retro computing, you can always get your typical Hp/Lenovo office desktop from a decade ago and play anything at 1080p even on integrated graphics for what, 40 bucks maybe? Computers no longer go obsolete as quick as they used to at the turn of the millennium, which is fantastic for your wallet.

@theclearsounds3911 5 месяцев назад

@@BilisNegra My daily driver is a Dell Latitude E6500 running Window XP, and it doesn't have any problem at all with RU-vid videos running at 720p using Mypal browser. Sometimes struggles with 1080p you YT. Of course, it no longer uses Flash, and maybe that's what would have slowed it down in the early 2000's, I'm not sure. A cheaper computer of the same day, yeah, I can see it not being able to keep up.

@MishraArtificer 5 месяцев назад

@@theclearsounds3911I've been fiddling with an old IBM Thinkpad from the Win2K era,running PuppyLinux. The RU-vid pages load perfectly fine, but I'm still trying to find GPU drivers for the thing, so it's trying desperately to CPU-render videos. It's...choppy, as you can imagine.

@youdonegoofed 5 месяцев назад

@@theclearsounds3911 why would you do this to yourself?

@theclearsounds3911 5 месяцев назад

@@youdonegoofed I'm waiting for someone to come out with a better OS than Windows XP, and, so far, nothing. Each Windows version gets more difficult to use than the last as they take away useful features and add spyware. MacOS is pretty consistently inferior and never improves. Linux was terrible when XP came out, and has gotten very slowly better, but still not as good today as XP. Computer CPU's and GPU's may be getting faster, but those terrible chiclet keyboards and trackpads with no buttons are far inferior to what we had 20 years ago. I'm doing this to myself because I enjoy using a convenient easy to use reliable OS on a computer with a far better human interface than is available today.

@GoldenSaddle 5 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the extensions for current browsers that aim to bring back the classic youtube design and layout (Customtube, YT Redux). Great video!

@konaDuvall 5 месяцев назад

I helped develope RU-vid Redux for a while!

@CuteSkyler 5 месяцев назад

I just downloaded CustomTube, this works great

@WalterKnox 5 месяцев назад

@@konaDuvall I tried it on a newer machine and it works great. My main PC however won't run it because the newest version of chromium I can run is 87, and for both of those extensions, 88 is required which kind of sucks.

@Joe-ko2kc 5 месяцев назад

@@WalterKnox Why can you not run chrome 88? are you using windows xp?

@WalterKnox 5 месяцев назад

@@Joe-ko2kcCorrect. And to be clear, I can run Chrome 115, and it will run the extensions, but RU-vid doesn't really work in that browser well. I am stuck with MiniBrowser which seems to be the best option at this point, and is chrome 87. It does everything perfectly except run some extensions.

@ghostxploid 4 месяца назад

We all miss the old youtube

@THEBaratusII 5 месяцев назад

Nice to see my channels being featured in this video. A friend of mine informed me about it after watching your video so I chimed in as well. It's nice to see people watching mine and other's content on their vintage computers just like the good old RU-vid days. Thanks for spreading the word about WarpStream. ^^

@DangItshere 5 месяцев назад

it's such a surreal thing seeing a vtuber thumbnail on a 2005-esque RU-vid homepage, felt like an alternate history all the sudden lmao

@THEBaratusII 5 месяцев назад

@@DangItshere Indeed. It's even more interesting when one of my friends told me my VTuber has that "early 2000s CGI women in gaming" vibe to it. ^^

@Ethel486 5 месяцев назад

ayyy man, proud to see how far you've come

@chiefhydropolis 5 месяцев назад

@@Ethel486dwango avatar?

@MarcBaggett1 5 месяцев назад

Great video Michael! I remember the old RU-vid. Brings up great memories!

@R-E-D-A-C-T-E-D. 5 месяцев назад

Even though I was born in 06 seeing the old youtube again brings back memories of watching RU-vid with my brother.

@andresbravo2003 5 месяцев назад

This takes me back to Old RU-vid Days on Flash. Hopefully my videos can also be watchable on WarpStream as well!

@CEO100able 5 месяцев назад

That is the coolest early RU-vid era emulation add-on I have ever seen for retro computer operating systems! Nice job!

@mauriziomonaco2458 5 месяцев назад

You literacy have no idea of how much i was waiting for something like this. I've allready set it up on my nokia comunicator and it works perfectly, just as i remember from back in the days. this is just an insane and awsome project

@CavemanPerson 5 месяцев назад

You know what's kind of bonkers? That "cable" went from 300K in the early 2000s to 500M in 2024.

@WelshProgrammer 4 месяца назад

Actually, it's kind of shocking that it's still so low. It's been 24 years and we're still restricted to speeds less than Gigabit Ethernet which has been around since 1999 and 10Gbe in 2002. ISPs are massively holding us back.

@CraftTheKnight 5 месяцев назад

Better than modern RU-vid🔥🔥

@Tommy43040 5 месяцев назад

I find it funny how a YT frontend on a old browser loads fast than the main site on a new browser. I guess so much for "PrOgReSs". sorry if your notifications were spammed btw the RU-vid AI keeps deleting my comments out of thin air.

@klausschmidt982 5 месяцев назад

Not in terms of content

@kaitlyn__L 5 месяцев назад

Oh man, I do NOT miss watching anime fansubs at that “WMP 56k” kind of video and audio quality 😅 I put up with it though, for all sorts of series that didn’t have an official release

@dycedargselderbrother5353 5 месяцев назад

I remember it taking half a weekend to download a 200 MB movie that was basically giant squares occasionally changing color. God forbid someone picked up the phone in the middle and the server didn't support resuming.

@kaitlyn__L 5 месяцев назад

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 gawd, waiting for things to download half the night, then being only 10% done and having to sadly click cancel because the computer Must be off was hell before I discovered download managers 😂

@Pasi123 5 месяцев назад

I didn't use the internet until we got 10/10Mbps fiber in 2006 so I've never really used slow connections*, but we did have the 10Mbps for a long time so I did get to download GTA V PC version on it. If I remember correctly it took like 17 hours to download it *Except sometimes outside our home in 2010-2011 when I shared 2G/3G internet from a Nokia 6630 to my netbook. I don't remember what speeds it got but the Nokia 6630 was one of the first 3G phones so it could only do a theoretical maximum of 384Kbps. It only had support for UMTS 2100MHz which was only available in more populated areas so often it didn't even have a 3G connection. Still better than a 56k modem though

@kaitlyn__L 5 месяцев назад

@@Pasi123 lucky you, 06 or 07 was when I upgraded to a _blazing_ 1Mbps down (and probably 100k up) ADSL line, I put up with dial-up until then 😅 The good news was I never needed to flush the cache on the Pentium 4 machine, so I had hundreds of Flash games cached to play while other stuff loaded. The bad news was it ran so hot I wasn’t allowed to run it overnight for stuff!

@RedSaint83 5 месяцев назад

It's crazy that 150 MB back in the day could give you 480p at best for an anime episode of roughly 20 minutes, and today you can get full 1080p episodes at roughly the same file size. I'm thinking of AV1 compression and Serial Experiment Lain in my case.

@thany3 5 месяцев назад

Just going off the name, I was expecting warpstream to be a service where you'd fire up a full in-browser VM with OS/2 Warp. Then again, I'm sure this has been done before, somewhere. If not, take my idea free of charge!

@brandonupchurch7628 5 месяцев назад

Thinking back I'm surprised at how long RU-vid still supported the flash based player, I think I managed to watch RU-vid from a Windows 95 VM in 2013 still, apparently they gave it the complete axe in 2015.

@gammaboost 5 месяцев назад

Windows XP still works great for youtube with browsers like Mypal (albeit lacking vsync) and I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 98 would be able to play youtube using a recent-ish browser, maybe with KernelEx.

@mysticaxolotl8215 5 месяцев назад

@@gammaboost I've never heard of MyPal, is it better than Pale Moon?

@Pasi123 5 месяцев назад

2013 is around when they were still starting to move to HTML5. That's around when I was testing the RU-vid HTML5 player in Ubuntu on an Athlon XP (no SSE2 support which was required by Flash on Ubuntu since 2012 or so) but most videos were still Flash only

@Tommy43040 5 месяцев назад

I'm surprised too. Now since 2017 to present the whole f*cking site is more bloated than Adobe Flash ever was.

@belstar1128 5 месяцев назад

in 2013 watching youtube on a windows xp pentium 4 with 512 mb of ram was still smooth try doing this today .

@DubiousD 5 месяцев назад

ive been getting a lot of video editing work lately that goes over happenings from the early internet, particularly youtube, this would be a fantastic resource, thanks for the spotlight

@minkiyina 5 месяцев назад

I can finally watch youtube on my windows 98 pc!

@ABwebGamesFan 5 месяцев назад

I was actually looking for something like this recently, so thanks! Also, I always enjoy watching your videos!

@spankypants2793 5 месяцев назад

I hope they continue adding to this, there's so many old youtube videos that should be on here

@Voyager_2 5 месяцев назад

I would love a mpeg1 option so I can watch this on my Amiga.

@TeganCantEven 5 месяцев назад

This is so cool!! This might be the motivation I needed to get/build an old PC!

@GameMaker3_5 5 месяцев назад

I remember I have an old Pentium II system my parents had since probably since forever ago. This year I was able to use a CF to IDE adapter to put a Windows 95 OS on it and do effectively whatever I want to on it... I'm sure curious about how I can make use of something like Warpsteam on that old system!

@Pasi123 5 месяцев назад

I tried that some days ago and it seems to work pretty well on my Celeron 333MHz

@retrotechnology3909 5 месяцев назад

I rate this video 5 stars.

@pokepress 5 месяцев назад

Honestly, I think they should bring back the star rating system. Yes, 1 and 5 were by far the most common, but any sort of granularity would be nice.

@JPX64Channel 5 месяцев назад

@@pokepress i've heard youtube removed it due to its complexity in the long run, and it would take lots of more server space than having a like/dislike system.

@thesadmusicboy 5 месяцев назад

Retro-revolutionary!! I can't be proud enough of the Retro community! I'll get my piece of retro experience myself soon :D

@DRKDNCR 5 месяцев назад

Amazing! Great content as always!

@z9cubing574 5 месяцев назад

Never get tired of the intro.

@t-rex-iran 5 месяцев назад

amazing like always!

@mateusr22 4 месяца назад

Wow! I've always wanted an RU-vid frontend that has an old look. It looks so cool! I'm definitely gonna use it!

@JonathanSteadman2003 5 месяцев назад

Thats awesome. I did not use the old RU-vid as I was born in 2003. Just love watching you videos on old technology. :)

@DreamFireNostalgia 5 месяцев назад

Im so sorry. The internet from 2000 to like 2010 was...just...glorious. I wish you could have experianced it.

@JonathanSteadman2003 5 месяцев назад

@@DreamFireNostalgia I started using technology in like 2006. But I gotten my first pc in 2012 witch has windows xp but wanted to use Linux. Then my first phone was like 2014. When I started high school (secondary school if in UK ). :)

@DreamFireNostalgia 5 месяцев назад

@@JonathanSteadman2003 dude after my own heart. I was born in 93. My family was fortunet enough to have a pc back then started messing with in in 95 and 96 according to my mother and vegue memories. Always facinated by the majic box.

@JonathanSteadman2003 5 месяцев назад

@@DreamFireNostalgia that's sounds fun. You probably know more about computing than me as a student in computing. I can still play with them thanks to tools like emulators and virtual machines. Truly is an amazing experience to try out old technology as a hobby. Have you tried doom or other games on the older computers? I started computing course in university as I wanna be a software developer. :)

@DreamFireNostalgia 5 месяцев назад

@@JonathanSteadman2003 i have. Still have an origonal copy of windows 98se still in plastic. Have an old texas instrament laptop with 98se on it. Though the HDD has the click of death. Got an old dell that still runs XP. Cant just throw them away trash wont take it so i just never got rid of some of the old pcs or laptops i have. Got an old compaq proliant 1500 server that i will get running one day just for kicks. And i have a box full of old graphics cards from an old Hercules "graphics accelerator" to early nvidia cards like the ol 8400gs. Still got a couple of old crt monitors and tvs for retro games. I get board and tinker. Been a windows slave for a long time now though. I wana try tinkering with linux but it scares me man. XD

@bobithethingy7529 5 месяцев назад

I feel like this year keeps getting better and better.

@RetroTechChris 5 месяцев назад

Glad to be a small part of this!

@tziuriky86 5 месяцев назад

OMG! A while ago I was thinking about something similar, but specifically dedicated to even older systems such as the Amiga, and made a proof of concept websites with a few videos converted in a format that Amiga can digest easilly. I love seeing this one, I miss the old web and I'm full of old computers that I would love to configure with this proxy for fun 😁

@FFlynn 5 месяцев назад

Nice video! This is better than modern RU-vid!

@ContriteCatholic 5 месяцев назад

The internet wasn't great back then, but the people online were incredible

@strawberrylemonadelioness 4 месяца назад

This brings back so many memories of browsing RU-vid as a kid!

@GONJRZ 4 месяца назад

My Mozilla Firefox and Opera in Win XP reborn, now to see videos like two decadea ago, the best era of internet, thank guys you are awesome ...many memories....

@guest75462 5 месяцев назад

damn 2023 was amazing with all the new stuff we could do with the wii, and now in 2024 we have even more cool stuff!

@greenknight9000 5 месяцев назад

*_YEEEESSSSS_* *_FINALLY! RU-vid ON ANCIENT WINDOWS VERSIONS!_*

@redsarg99 5 месяцев назад

got to admit this is sweet, it really takes me back!

@imgaminghere 5 месяцев назад

This is so cool! Thx for sharing. 👍

@anon_y_mousse 5 месяцев назад

That's pretty cool. If only every website could get the retro treatment.

@DarrylMain111 5 месяцев назад

That's cool website and also keep up the good work Michael.

@EBTheOriginalMaster 5 месяцев назад

Happy New Year Michael

@pacthesir 5 месяцев назад

This is so cool! I miss old youtube, and I see there is no ads!

@somelazyboi1739 5 месяцев назад

Omg I've literally been dreaming about something like this!

@capitanodessa7472 5 месяцев назад

Next step: A way to use a proxy computer to downscale current RU-vid videos to a usable format for old computers.

@Smarttube01 5 месяцев назад

Nice :) Love youtube and you channel!

@JustinDaniels 5 месяцев назад

Since RU-vid got rid of dislike count, they should honestly bring back the star rating system. For example, some videos, I don't dislike, but aren't worthy of a like because they're just mid. A 3-star rating would allow for this feeling. Or maybe, 4 stars for a good video but the audio quality is bad.

@brandonlewis2599 5 месяцев назад

To re-create the early oughts, you also need to slipstream in all that vintage malware that clogged the arteries of contemporary windows boxes, and popped up obnoxious dialogs.

@markus9641 5 месяцев назад

Oh wow I’m a gen z, and this brings back so many memories of me watching youtube at 7-8 years old on our Windows 98 family computer

@askjeevescosby2928 5 месяцев назад

We dont need another way back machine what we need is a functional internet for old machines. Like the old aol client that shows private servers for pc games, restores all the old flash games, bring back the old pogo games with tokens and give away retro pc prizes with the tokens, bring aim back, it would be awsome.

@Saul_Soto82 5 месяцев назад

Look up NINA and escargot

@FlakerGamer 5 месяцев назад

Thank you man

@aayanbaig4775 9 дней назад

Finally warpstream went live! I'm late but I'm def gonna try this on my machine!

@Fortuna1 5 месяцев назад

this looking awesome for recreate all old for very old pc

@RetroGamerOG_ 5 месяцев назад

This is probably the best thing I could ever use since my old computer works better than my new one

@CzlowiekDrzewo 5 месяцев назад

This is lovely

@allesNorris 5 месяцев назад

great site for my Windows 9x computer . Thanks for support that

@ethanpschwartz 5 месяцев назад

Seems accurate; I remember pulling up a video and letting it buffer for a few minutes while I made a snack.

@WinXP_SP1 5 месяцев назад

This is pretty cool!

@TheYaxYT 5 месяцев назад

this project brings back memories of the old RU-vid!

@Sb129 4 месяца назад

I've downloaded so many youtube videos (almost 5Tb) for so long that I have a handful of old .FLV videos surviving from before YT switched to HTML5. This looks as cool as ever~

@jasonviande5053 5 месяцев назад

I get making modern internet look like 1999 (I personally like the asthetic better) but I don't get simulating the speeds of that age. Seems more for someone who didn't have to deal with 3.5K download speeds.

@belstar1128 5 месяцев назад

its interesting to check what works and what doesn't but then i quickly switch back to full speed .

@Zathena 5 месяцев назад

I love your content 😭

@lopwidth7343 5 месяцев назад

Wow this takes me back. The time where viral videos was something you could keep up on if you watched every day. Sort of like keeping up with the "internet" sort of thing. I miss the time of visiting specific websites and keeping up

@SonicBoone56 5 месяцев назад

This is so cool

@532rewXP 5 месяцев назад

micheals videos are great!

@lolifreak4063 5 месяцев назад

This is nice, I honestly miss those times.

@The_SonicFan2010 5 месяцев назад

I wonder could they have set it up so that way you can watch Modern RU-vid videos in the classic video player style

@8BitAwesomee 5 месяцев назад

This is so neat! :3

@Nebula-qq8sg 5 месяцев назад

I’m almost tempted to make something like this that uses invidious as a backend so it has an up to date library of youtube

@randomgamingin144p 5 месяцев назад

I wonder what this would be like on the Wii, considering the Wii used to run RU-vid well

@lapielazoolie 5 месяцев назад

Wasn’t it called RU-vid XL?

@boomcrafter. 5 месяцев назад

I have been searching for something like this for years and finally I found it

@Emorejets 5 месяцев назад

Very cool!

@9a3eedi 5 месяцев назад

You know what's funny, I'm pretty sure that video of "me at the zoo" is running at a higher quality on that ancient machine than whatever is playing on RU-vid now, which has been transcoded over and over to get smaller file sizes

@rumenjanro 4 месяца назад

Tested this on my Wii, and, IT ACTUALLY WORKED!

@acupuncturekid 2 месяца назад

Do you use the internet channel?

@jeremiefaucher-goulet3365 5 месяцев назад

I loved seeing that curiousmarc has his channel on there too

@mccrh7737 5 месяцев назад

That's so awesome 😉😀

@danil-old-web 5 месяцев назад

also using it, useful for retro computer.

@dycedargselderbrother5353 5 месяцев назад

3:30 TayZonday's presence has been invoked.

@Tommi-C 5 месяцев назад

Retro web. WOW I love it.

@TheCentristChad 5 месяцев назад

Incredible

@RJARRRPCGP 2 месяца назад

The oldest I have now: A very-late socket 775 motherboard with 45 nm Core 2s and socket 1366 with Core i7 Extreme 965. Other than an early-2010s Gigabyte socket AM3 system, IIRC, also has an Athlon X2, IIRC. For screens that are the oldest that I have now: A 40-inch plasma TV and a 42-inch Panasonic Viera LCD.

@guaiqueritech 5 месяцев назад

That Floppy Disk wall looks dope. Makes me regret throwing away mine 😅

@roblox123admet 5 месяцев назад

Very cool

@greenlemon9155 5 месяцев назад

We are going back in time with the power of technology !!

@toast_cat2265 5 месяцев назад

Man these guy's are underated

@sundaymornhalls 5 месяцев назад

I HAVE TO TRY THIS

@stevencarlson5422 5 месяцев назад

I have to do this now especially when my favorite RU-vid people are on it

@Virgule 5 месяцев назад

Love the videos as always, just had a quick question: at the end of the video you mention that only few tech youtubers have their videos on bot at 2:28, we see a video veom a Vtuber that was uploaded 2 days ago; I was just wondering if the tool is somewhat connected to modern day youtube or something Either way, great video :D