From a new web project called IMG_0001:
Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
The Washington Post reports that it’s the same 22-year-old software engineer who created Bop Spotter — that phone on a telephone pole using the Shazam app to identify songs people play in public.
And his new site includes only videos “posted before 2015, with fewer than 150 views each and durations shorter than 150 seconds.”
In about 12 hours total, Walz said, he coded a website that takes millions of these unedited, raw videos from more than nine years ago and serves them to viewers at