YouTube, the jewel of the internet

Kye wrote: post #4

turtleyacht wrote: post #3

Recently: YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35670162 - yesterday (1 comment)

This website has no connection to Internet Archive.

No, but it does have a paywall that you can get around by reading the archived version.

Re: YouTube, the jewel of the internet

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Post by Kye » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 7:11 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #6

Kye wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This website has no connection to Internet Archive.

No, but it does have a paywall that you can get around by reading the archived version.

I didn't comment on that. Just the mistake about having something to do with Internet Archive.

Re: YouTube, the jewel of the internet

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 7:24 PM UTC

Kye wrote: post #7

sp332 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but it does have a paywall that you can get around by reading the archived version.

I didn't comment on that. Just the mistake about having something to do with Internet Archive.

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Re: YouTube, the jewel of the internet

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Post by rcarr » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

I agree with the author. I just cancelled Spotify and got YouTube Premium and it was an absolutely brilliant decision. Pretty soon I’m going to cancel Netflix and Prime too and just take out the odd month subscription to a streaming service if there’s something I really want to watch. I’m probably better off watching some informative documentary on YT than I am watching Netflix anyway and if I want entertainment, there are millions of hours of TTRPGs, stand up comedy and web series to watch that are often of a really high quality (e.g Critical Role, Ari Shaffir, Wayne).

It’s an awesome resource and I think Gen Z are at a massive advantage because of it. They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I think we’ll see them leapfrogging millennials on the career ladder because they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free. No other generation in history has had such an opportunity. You were limited by your parents bank balance or the resources of your local library.

Re: YouTube, the jewel of the internet

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Post by mkaic » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 7:45 PM UTC

rcarr wrote: post #9

I agree with the author. I just cancelled Spotify and got YouTube Premium and it was an absolutely brilliant decision. Pretty soon I’m going to cancel Netflix and Prime too and just take out the odd month subscription to a streaming service if there’s something I really want to watch. I’m probably better off watching some informative documentary on YT than I am watching Netflix anyway and if I want entertainment, the…

As a Gen Z-er who grew up learning as much as I could about my passions, mostly on YouTube, I hope you're right about us! I'm really hopeful that my generation can go on to do some pretty great stuff. We do have a patently odd sense of humor, though...