⏳ Welcome to the YouTube Time Machine! Select any day since 2005 April 23 to see a snapshot of what was being uploaded and watched. From classic music videos to forgotten news clips and popular videos that day, relive the digital history of the world's most popular video platform.
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Use this option if you want to find a specific video or event that you remember.
Use this option if you want to see a random selection of important videos from a specific day.
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🤔 Have you ever noticed a video appears to be from the day before you asked for it? For example, you requested videos for September 5, 2017, but YouTube shows them as published on September 4. This is due to time zones. When a video is uploaded, YouTube assigns it a publish date and time based on a global standard called **Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)**. While your local time may be different (like Los Angeles at UTC-7 or London at UTC+1), YouTube's internal clock is the same for everyone. This means a video uploaded on September 4 at 5:00 PM in your local time could be recorded as published at 12:00 AM on September 5 in YouTube's time. To be as accurate as possible, our Time Machine searches within YouTube's global time. This ensures we show you what actually happened on that day on a global scale! So don't worry, the difference is only a few hours. 🌐
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