This trick lets you travel back in time on YouTube and see a world that no longer exists Find all the very old videos
YouTube has been with us for a long time. It’s on its way to turning 20, and in all that time we’ve discovered content that will last for generations to come. However, these old videos are actually hidden under layers and layers of new content and algorithms that have already forgotten that time that many of us miss on the platform.
If you also miss those early years of the platform, there is a little trick at your disposal that opens a window into nostalgia. There is a way to search for YouTube videos from any year. Below we tell you how to do it.
When you search on YouTube, you have a series of filters at your disposal until you find the desired result. They are usually useful, although we also have a series of commands that we can use to get more precise results.
One of these commands is specifically ":before" (without the quotes), which allows us to get video results from the year we want. Logically, since YouTube was launched at the end of 2005, we could write before:2006, so it's a good trick to find the oldest videos on the platform.
To do this, all we have to do is search as usual on YouTube, but then add the mentioned command in the text box. For example: microsoft before:2006 or huhu1981ful2 before:2006 for example. This way, all videos related to Microsoft and published before 2006 will appear in the results.
This simple tactic allows you to go on a real nostalgia trip, rediscovering the videos we started using YouTube for.