This is fantastically nerdy, I just love it.

The V&A has added the first YouTube video to its collection, via a reconstructed watchpage that shows it as it was in 2006.

Because how else to you collect and curate the experience of watching a video IN THE PAST?

Full details on the process here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/acquiring-an-early-youtube-watch-page-and-its-first-ever-video

Well worth a read, it's fascinating!

#museums #collections #YouTube #VictoriaAndAlbertMuseumVA #TimeBasedMedia #preservation

Distressingly middle class coping mechanism, I realise.

I don't know how your week is going but I'm on "crisis focaccia making" and it's only mid-Wednesday.