IMG_0001是一个利用YouTube早期用户上传的视频片段，构建的怀旧时光机。这些视频大多拍摄于2009年至2012年，当时iPhone自带的‘发送到YouTube’功能，让许多人将未经编辑的日常瞬间上传至平台。这些视频保留了当时的原始文件名，例如IMG_XXXX，如同一个时间胶囊，记录了那个年代人们生活的点滴。项目作者Riley Walz利用程序抓取了约500万个此类视频，并将其整合到一个网站上，随机播放，带给人们一种独特的怀旧体验，仿佛回到过去，重温那个网络世界相对简单纯粹的时代。

📅IMG_0001项目利用了2009年至2012年间，iPhone用户通过内置功能上传至YouTube的视频片段，这些视频大多保留了原始文件名IMG_XXXX，形成一个独特的时间胶囊。

📽️这些视频内容涵盖了当时人们生活的方方面面，例如雪灾、电影评论、音乐演出等，展现了那个时代网络文化和生活方式的缩影，同时也包含了许多温馨的瞬间，如宠物、婚礼和孩子们的演出等。

🤖项目作者Riley Walz开发了一个程序，抓取了大约500万个此类视频，并将其整合到一个网站上，以随机播放的方式呈现，让用户可以体验到一种独特的怀旧感，重温过去网络世界的简单和纯粹。

💡项目作者Riley Walz也曾开发过其他有趣的科技项目，例如‘Bop Spotter’，利用手机持续运行Shazam，追踪旧金山Mission District播放的歌曲。

🌐IMG_0001项目的意义在于，它提醒人们网络世界并非总是经过精心打造的，也曾存在过许多真实、自然、未经修饰的瞬间，这些瞬间构成了网络文化的一部分，也值得我们去回味和珍惜。

There's hardly anything online these days that isn't heavily produced. We're constantly searching for an audience, performing for the camera, or, at the very least, wary of the internet's gaze. Regular folks with a couple dozen followers still stress over whether something is worthy of gracing their Instagram grid.

Not that long ago, however, the online world was far less polished. A candid video in 2024 typically involves someone asking their friend to take a "candid" shot. But in, say, 2011, random slice-of-life content was all over the internet. A new art project cleverly scraped YouTube for those moments — lost to time and lack of views — and turned them into a constant stream of nostalgia.

It's the kind of authenticity that's all too rare online these days.

The project, created by Riley Walz, is called IMG_0001.

Wrote Walz on their site: "Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in 'Send to YouTube' button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives."

Walz made a bot that crawled some 5 million of those videos and created a landing page where they'd play in random order. It's remarkably cool and weirdly nostalgic and worth checking out.

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I fired it up for about 15-20 minutes and was flooded with nostalgia. It doesn't hurt that, for me, most of these random vignettes come from an era when I was in high school and college — those are inherently nostalgic times. I saw a video of the East Coast's 2010 Snowmageddon, a guy telling his friend what he thought of Silver Linings Playbook, and people dancing to Skrillex's "Bangarang." There will, of course, be plenty of videos in languages you don't understand.

Also, fire this thing up, and you will certainly see some grainy concert footage, especially of the wildly loud Dubstep-heavy EDM of that era. But I also saw some tender moments, too. Dogs running in a field, weddings, kids' concert rehearsals. There was one where a guy slowly walked through his set-up to watch a soccer game in a video addressed to his friend. Another showed a car speeding down the highway — not very interesting — except I noticed it was my birthday, 12 years ago.

The project from Walz is really neat and, by its nature, unpredictable. But he's hardly a stranger to these kinds of tech endeavors. Notably, he also created a tool called "Bop Spotter" that tracks the songs played in San Francisco's Mission District via a hidden phone constantly running Shazam.

In an interview with KQED, Walz said, "I'm just a normal guy who knows something about technology and likes seeing amusing things."