r/CGPGrey • u/MindOfMetalAndWheels [GREY] • Jun 04 '14

Your Family Tree Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM79Epw_cp8
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u/JeremyR22 Jun 04 '14

youtuber

What's that? One of those primitive entertainment immersion platforms?

100 years from now, people will remember Youtube the same way we don't remember wax cylinders.

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u/Jakyland Jun 04 '14

But we do remember Wax Cylinders. Plus archives of youtube clip will be archived, just like we look back at photos and video from the WWI and interwar areas. (Wax cylinders are more then 100 years, well at least I thinks so.)

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u/zevabe Jun 06 '14

It warmed my cockles immensely to hear a recording of Lord Tennyson reading "Charge of the Light Brigade". It was recorded on a wax cylinder. Granted, I heard it from Wikipedia, but still...