Around 2021-2022 I remember seeing a site that acted as an archive of old mid-2000s YouTube, similar UI and everything, and it stated it got the videos from "scrapes/backups of old CDNs" or something like that. The logo looked something like pic, if memory serves. I asked about this earlier in /sqt/ of /g/, and someone asked:>Was it a hobbyist site with like maybe a few hundred videos or like a legitimate archive like the internet archiveThe thread died before I got a chance to respond, but I think it was probably more like the former, though I'm not sure. I should also note that, in my search, I found TubeVault, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't it, though I suppose it may have been worked on by some of the same people. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>1560271Couldn't find anything, after a short amount of searching. Though tbf I wasn't active on 4chan or the other sites you were probably on in 2021-2022 so that line of investigation remains open.>https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YoutubeArchiveTeam's youtube wiki page>https://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca/Searches multiple resources to recover youtube videos from their urls>https://vorapis.pages.dev/#/Old youtube UI, but not the old videos I believe>https://altipedia.fandom.com/A fandom about old youtube alternatives. None of them had the icon you had (unless perhaps your icon didn't appear inside their title logo).Perhaps you'll find benefit from sticking before:YYYY-MM-DD or before:DD-MM-YYYY onto your youtube searches. Former for normal things and the latter for current events.(There is a corresponding `after:` field that you can also use.)
>>1560487>I wasn't active on 4chan or the other sites you were probably on in 2021-2022 so that line of investigation remains open.I know I'm going to get hated for admitting this, but I didn't start actively using this site until a year or two ago myself. The same goes for an admission that I probably heard about this site either from a subreddit or Discord server (either Return YouTube Dislike or yt-dlp, if so) related to third-party YouTube clients, extensions, and downloaders.
