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Video-based blogging was starting to get popular among a fringe group of innovative weirdos towards the end of 2004. Some of them organized "Vloggercon", where around a hundred of us gathered at NYU to meet eachother and present what we'd be working on.

Vimeo was about a month old at this point, and they let me demo it. It was different back then, enjoy.

Here's the first Vimeo on archive.org:
web.archive.org/web/20041230042348/www.blumpy.org/vimeo/

Here is the page with the full version of this video:
archive.org/details/VloggerCon05SessionsTOOLStoolsvloggercon05mov

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  • Jacob plus 3 years ago
    It's amazing to look back later and see how things progressed.
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  • chriskalani 3 years ago
    dude I remember vloggercon... sorta. gosh those stupid wipe transitions! gah!
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  • Adam Holwerda 3 years ago
    What happened to this Make a Movie thing? It seems freaking sweet.
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    It worked with Quicktime only. Quicktime only worked when the site was very small; if you want more people to be able to use the site, you have to use Flash.

    We'd like to bring it back in the future.
  • mika 3 years ago
    I would love this feature. I didn't read the headline and thought that this is your glorious new idea you're gonna ship the next few days.

    You should definately bring this back!
  • victoria 3 years ago
    The make a movie thing is an awesome idea! I hope it works out one day, but if not I don't think it's that big of a deal... people are so creative here and they obviously don't mind editing their own clips!
  • keith 3 years ago
    It's probably much easier to due with Flash anyway.
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  • Blake Whitman staff 3 years ago
    great to see where it all came from. when did it turn over to more of the site we use today?
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  • abteen 3 years ago
    haha I completely forgot about the short movie thing where it took short clips of everyone's footage and put it all together.
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  • jonwadsworth 3 years ago
    This is a great 'history of'.

    Gives us new Vimizens a picture of where this came from.

    Thanks for sharing
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  • codesarah 3 years ago
    I appreciate Vimeo more after seeing the history! Thanks for sharing. You are very inspiring, Jakob!!! Thanks for Vimeo!!
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  • Pam Newman 3 years ago
    This info is pretty cool.
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  • davidxcarroll 3 years ago
    so would you say you're living your dream? or does this flame get hotter...
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  • Cait Oppermann 3 years ago
    I think I joined a couple of months after this. This is so interesting.
  • Alex Kehr 3 years ago
    I know I joined 6 months later- on June 14, 2005.

    Did you have to email Jakob for an account?
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  • Jesse England 3 years ago
    This reminds me of the famous 1968 Xerox PARC demonstration of the first computer mouse.
  • Mareen Fischinger plus 3 years ago
    Agreed. Things have sped up so much!
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  • Makinov plus 3 years ago
    Really cool to see how it all started, and I concur with Dobbsie, that shirts rad.
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  • andrea plus 3 years ago
    That was so much fun. We were all pretty excited about vimeo. This clip doesn't show it but there was a lot of applause at the end.
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  • schroberts 3 years ago
    Thanks for sharing this.
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  • Jakub Toborek 3 years ago
    Does it make me old-school that I remember that version of vimeo?
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  • JD 3 years ago
    And where will we be in another 2 years?
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  • Nick Gray 3 years ago
    Wow, thanks for the shout-out! I am so humbled. Ideas are a dime a dozen - but you IMPLEMENTED! Great work.
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  • victoria 3 years ago
    This is so cool to see, thanks for sharing with us Jakob! You had an idea and you made it happen. I started shooting video clips about 6 years ago but they just sat on my hard drive unwatched for years. Now they don't have to! Yay Vimeo! :) I always wondered if it was Vimeo, like video with a "me". I thought that was clever. But I never noticed it was an anagram for "movie". Genius!
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  • DJ Paine plus 3 years ago
    jakob- we need a vimeo history channel!
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  • CTD3 3 years ago
    Inspiring Jakob! congrats on all of your and Vimeo's success. I love seeing the history of
    creating great sites.
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  • Chelsa 3 years ago
    Very cool Jakob
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  • gravity 3 years ago
    A star is born... wut wut
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  • craigsoup 3 years ago
    Was that music by John Vanderslice?
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    yes!
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  • Schlomo 3 years ago
    We are starting to plan the next Vloggercon (to be held in DC)-- I hope you will come and talk about what you have learned between now and then!
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  • Ross Hill 2 years ago
    Wow. I just realised that I visited that version of your site when it came out... I never would have recognised it, well done on getting the idea to what it is today!
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  • Fabio Giolito 2 years ago
    hey jacob, nice outfit
    haha =P
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