TubeVault Preserving YouTube's early history
  1. TubeVault
  2. Overview
    1. Features
      1. Hide View Count
      2. Channel Hiding
      3. noindex
      4. Recommend Itself
      5. Redirects
    2. Validation
      1. Channel IDs
      2. Incremental IDs
      3. Video IDs

TubeVault

Our Mission

TubeVault is dedicated to preserving and documenting the early history of YouTube. We maintain records of the platform's oldest users, earliest videos, and significant milestones from YouTube's founding in 2005 through its formative years.

This project is made possible by the following people:

  1. brutecat - Project maintainer
  2. Veristune - Recovery and archival of lost early videos
  3. kurosparks - Recovery and archival of lost early videos
  4. NanDroid - Recovery and archival of lost early videos (2021 - 2023)
  5. 7452 - Research into early users and rankings
  6. Nick - Research into early users and rankings (before 2011)
  7. rebane2001 - Video hosting

This website and all of its code is open source on GitHub. We do not accept donations, only contributions.

Disclaimer

This site is not affiliated with Google, YouTube, or any of their subsidiaries. TubeVault is an independent preservation project. All YouTube-related trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners.

Contact

For any concerns, corrections, or additional information, please reach out to us:

contact [at] tubevault.org

We appreciate your interest in preserving YouTube's early history and welcome contributions from the community to help maintain the accuracy of our records.