Comment by sonicenvy on 20/01/2025 at 04:06 UTC

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View submission: Anyone else not ever use TikTok whatsoever?

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What you want is https://www.findoldvideo.com/[1][2] which is a site that allows you to search youtube videos only in a specific year (ie: 2007). It basically works by using a series of exclusion limiters in a regular YT search (so you don't have to type them out yourself).

1: https://www.findoldvideo.com/

2: https://www.findoldvideo.com/

For example I used the site to search for "knitting left handed" and [2008] and this was the results[3] that I got. I selected "chronological" for my sort function, so I see all "knitting left-handed" videos from 2008 in chronological order. As you noted, every one of these videos is like max 2 minutes long.

3: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=knitting%20left%20handed%20-2005%20-2006%20-2007%20-2009%20-2010%20-2011%20-2012%20-2013%20-2014%20-2015%20-2016%20-2017%20-2018%20-2019%20-2020%20-2021%20-2022%20-2023%20-2024%20-2025%20-&sp=CAISAhAB

The site also allows you to pick a particular month if you were trying to track down a specific old video, but I typically just use it to find old art/craft tutorials from 15+ years ago, so I leave the month field blank.

I don't know how well (or if) this works on mobile, since I've only ever used it on desktop. Tested in firefox and chrome and the results are slightly different depending on which browser I tried, but that may just be because my chrome, which I never use and only installed for the purpose of testing sites, is clean whereas my firefox has mega super turbo ad blocking and heavy youtube site modifications.

Now you don't need to go onto tik tok (cursed) to see some 2 minute or less knitting tutorials. :)

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