in the grand scheme of tech, sure. Around this same time, Justin.tv wasn't even off the ground yet. Companies fail fast often these days, so it can be easy to forget that a few companies had to invest years before hey even saw a spark.

Regardless, this seems to be a nitpick that doesn't amount to much. be it a crappy hand camera recorded with an unregistered hypercam 2 or early smartphones as cameras developed, the main point was that Youtube started out very amateur before Google came in.