After 10 years of teaching the internet, Tom Scott is taking a break
On Jan. 1, 2014, at 4 p.m. local time, Tom Scott uploaded an 83-second video to YouTube.
It was an edutainment clip called There Are Special Crossings For Horses In Britain, and he wasn’t expecting it to get a significant response. As he explains it, he’d been “throwing stuff at the internet since 1999, and for many, many years, that stuff went almost nowhere.”
But the video did get a significant response.
He uploaded another one the very next day, talking about why there are so few helicopter crashes in London. Then, the next day, another, about how to make an orange peel flamethrower.
He soon collectively gave these videos a series name, Things You Might Not Know, and decided he would upload one every single week.
And, for the past 10 years, that’s what he’s done. He has covered hundreds of topics across dozens of interests and industries, and...
It was an edutainment clip called There Are Special Crossings For Horses In Britain, and he wasn’t expecting it to get a significant response. As he explains it, he’d been “throwing stuff at the internet since 1999, and for many, many years, that stuff went almost nowhere.”
But the video did get a significant response.
He uploaded another one the very next day, talking about why there are so few helicopter crashes in London. Then, the next day, another, about how to make an orange peel flamethrower.
He soon collectively gave these videos a series name, Things You Might Not Know, and decided he would upload one every single week.
And, for the past 10 years, that’s what he’s done. He has covered hundreds of topics across dozens of interests and industries, and...
- 1/2/2024
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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