Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease

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.

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