YouTube is a fascinating resource. It, in my opinion, truly embodies the spirit of the internet. There is a huge volume of stuff out there, some of it incredibly interesting and useful but the majority very foolish. People can post tutorials, music, or news, but mostly use it to put up embarrassing videos of their friends or silly animals. Which, really, are entertaining if you have time to kill, but don't add much to the your intellectual growth.
Sometimes you can find really great things though. For example:
This video was posted by the Library of Congress from their collection of film. The title is "Babies rolling eggs", and the description under the video gives bibliographic record-style information about it, a description of what happens, the date, where it was filmed, subject headings, and name entries. It is a truly fascinating glimpse of life in 1902, where babies rolling eggs was a thing that happened, that I would probably have never been aware of otherwise. YouTube and the Library of Congress have teamed up to teach me about egg rolling.
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