<story><title>YouTube was launched as a dating site</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nyx</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t realize The Wayback Machine had so much YouTube content from the early days. Really interesting going back and seeing what was on the front page on some random day in 2006.&lt;p&gt;Looking at what people were uploading and what people were watching leaves me feeling a bit wistful. It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>Everything on the Internet was much better before advertisers were willing to spend real money on the Internet. Once the advertisers began to take the Internet seriously, and companies committed to an advertising model, everything went to hell.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube was launched as a dating site</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nyx</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t realize The Wayback Machine had so much YouTube content from the early days. Really interesting going back and seeing what was on the front page on some random day in 2006.&lt;p&gt;Looking at what people were uploading and what people were watching leaves me feeling a bit wistful. It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marssaxman</author><text>&lt;i&gt;It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t that the way it always goes? I wish there were some way of permanently locking Wall Street out of the picture so we could actually have some nice things.</text></comment>