Videoblogging history
So the podcasting guys are, clearly, being kids. Fighting over the history of podcasting. Jees. I documented a lot of stuff on the videoblogging wiki during 2004, which was the crucial year during which videoblogging started. Here's a copy, in case that resource goes down. For the future. As a disclaimer: this report probably misses a few important events, there might be a mistake or two in there as well.1956
- AT&T builds the first Picturephone test system. Source
1966
- Douglas Engelbart demonstrates videoconferencing over a network. "Engelbart demonstrated NLS at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in 1968 in a presentation to several thousand conference participants. He demonstrated the mouse, the first working form of hypertext, and a form of video teleconferencing." Source
1970
- AT&T offers Picturephone for $160 per month. Source
1981
July
- Packet Video Protocol (PVP), by Randy Cole, USC/ISI Source
1992
- AT&T's $1,500 videophone for home market. Source
1998
- Adrian Miles publishes a paper called Cinematic Paradigms for Hypertext
2000
October
- Samsung releases the first MPEG-4 streaming 3G (CDMA2000-1x) video cell phone Source
November
- Adrian Miles posts his first (known) videoblog entry on November 27, 2000.
2001
January
- Dave Winer talks to Adam Curry and writes about Payloads For RSS, an article in which he presents the ENCLOSURE element for RSS which will lead to the Rss Enclosures technology.
July
- Human Dog begins regularly posting video. Not quite videoblogs, but it's a start. (Summer of Van Torre Series http://www.human-dog.com)
September
- World's first trans-atlantic tele gallbladder surgery. Source
October
- NTT Do Co Mo sells $570 3G (WCDMA) mobile videophone. Source
- TV reporters use $7,950 portable satellite videophone to broadcast live from Afghanistan. Source
2002
October
- Macro Media conducts videoblogging experiment using Flash. Jeremy Allaire writes Thoughts on Video Blog Experiment: "Over the past several days a number of us Macromedians conducted an experiment by using a simple Flash Com video communications applications to blog about the Macromedia Dev Con developer's conference."
- Chuck Olsen posts his first videoblog, a tribute to Paul Wellstone.
December
- Jeff Jarvis does a bunch of experiments with videoblogging.
2003
February
- BrowseTV begins airing as a live videoblog from a webcam and a laptop that simulcasts both online and on cable access television Audience members leave 'comments' by IM'ing the host and having their messages appear live on the show.
June
- BBC News: Will porn kick-start the video phone revolution?
- Nacho Duran set ups the first South American videoblog, posting the first time on 2003/06/15 http://www.feitoamouse.com.br/videoblog/junio/030615.htm
March
- Slashdot article Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time? (refering to an MSNBC article that's not really about videoblogging)
September
- Textamerica Introduces Camera Phone Video Moblogging (videomoblogging? movideoblogging? movoblogging?) (12/09/2003,Source)
December
- Justin Johnson blog starts experimenting with videoblogging.
2004
January
- Steve Garfield starts videoblogging with the post 2004 The Year Of The Videoblog
- Chris Weagel of Human Dog opens the Human Dog Laboratory. Weekly video posts begin January 13, 2004. (http://www.human-dog.com/exper/journal1.html)
April
- Time Magazine article makes videoblogging a hot topic (mentioning Steve Garfield): See Me, Blog Me
- This wiki is created.
- Peter Van Dijck posts his first videoblogging entry.
May
- Adam Curry announces the start of the development of a tool to make videoblogging easier, calling it Personal Tv Networks.
June
- Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman start the videoblogging mailing list, which will turn into an active community.
- A small group of people decide to experiment with posting one videoblogging post a day during Video Blogging Week.
- June 20 – Mica Scalin posts first video to Hello?http://publicaddress.typepad.com a videoblog studio.
July
- Vidblogs dot com officially launches, with over 30 active video bloggers.
- Charlene, a professional editor by day, starts her videoblog after talking to Mica.
- Lisa posted the first known personal videoblog entry using video from a cellphone — the VX7000 which uses the 3g2 format.
Aug
- The first known sign-video-blog entry (using sign language in video on a blog)
- The first known videoblog that allows video-comments.
- Aug 23 – The collaborative video project, Excuisite Corpse begins.
Oct
- First beta of Creative Commons Publisher is released, allowing videobloggers to easily upload large videos that the Internet Archive will host for free if they have a Creative Commons? license.
- Joshua Kinberg create's Vipodder, a videoblog
aggregator based on the iPodder concept using Applescript, Perl, and
Cellulo
2.0 – a quicktime playlist application for Mac OS X.
Nov
- Article in portuguese about videoblogging: Internautas incrementam blogues com vídeos digitais
- Steve Garfield sets up a test blog for the concept of videopodcasting http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videopodcast/
- Steve Garfield uploads the first videoblogging entry to the internet archive here.
- The videoblogging mailing list has grown to 120 members and over 2000 messages, and spawned a sister mailing list called videoblogging_content
Dec
- Peter Van Dijck starts me-tv, the first vogbrowser (browser based videoblog aggregator), inspired by a prototype vogbrowser by Kenyatta.
- Jay Dedman and Josh Kinberg start ANT's not television, the first desktop based videoblog aggregator.
- Businessweek writes about videoblogging.
- ABC News names bloggers some of it's People Of The Year. The 3.5 minute piece features The Youngest Videoblogger In The World, Dylan Verdi. Michael Verdi made this post explaining how it all happened.
# Dec 4, 2005