But amazingly
不過(guò)令人驚喜的是
people all over the world
世界各地有很多人
uploaded lots and lots and lots of video
上傳了很多很多很多視頻
and it just went into a database of Google that nobody could see
這些視頻都被存放在一個(gè)沒(méi)人能夠看到的谷歌數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)中
So a Friday night later
之后在一個(gè)周五晚上
we got together and decided to watch some of these videos and see
我們決定坐在一起觀看其中一些視頻
what we should do with this new experiment
討論一下我們應(yīng)該怎樣進(jìn)行這個(gè)新實(shí)驗(yàn)
We opened the first video and waited
我們打開(kāi)第一個(gè)視頻 然后等待
It was of a purple furry puppets
視頻中是一個(gè)毛茸茸的紫色木偶
dancing and singing in Swedish
用瑞典語(yǔ)唱著歌 跳著舞
You know, just what we're used to watching on TV
就同我們平時(shí)在電視上看到的視頻類(lèi)似
It was probably one of the first user generated videos anyone had ever seen
這或許是人類(lèi)有史以來(lái)的第一個(gè)用戶自創(chuàng)視頻
and honestly, I had no idea what to think
老實(shí)說(shuō) 我沒(méi)有太多感想
but my kids knew what to think
但我的孩子們顯然很有感想
They cheered. Play it again
他們歡呼說(shuō) 再放一次
We played that video a lot
那個(gè)視頻我們播放了很多次
The videos were unusual
這些視頻很不尋常
I hadn't seen anything like it before
之前我從沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)這種東西
They were interesting and funny and more
它們很有趣 很搞笑
importantly everyone wanted to see more of them
更重要的是 人們都想看更多視頻
We started building out a platform called Google Video
我們于是建立起了一個(gè)平臺(tái) 叫作谷歌視頻
for users to upload and see their videos
讓用戶上傳和觀看自己的視頻
And every day we're getting more and more uploads to Google Video
每天 谷歌視頻的上傳量都在增加
We had our first hit
之后我們首次獲得成功
And it wasn't from where you thought it would be from
或許你們想不到它來(lái)自哪里
It was 2 college students, 2 Chinese college students in their dorm room
視頻中 兩個(gè)中國(guó)大學(xué)生在寢室
singing and dancing to the Backstreet Boys
隨著后街男孩的歌曲唱著跳著
with their roommate doing their homework in the background
背景里則是他們的室友在做作業(yè)
And in spite of this, it became the first video to reach 1 million views
這成為了首個(gè)觀看次數(shù)超百萬(wàn)的視頻
which was a lot back then
這在當(dāng)時(shí)是個(gè)很大的數(shù)字
That clip gave us an insight about the future video
這一視頻讓我們對(duì)未來(lái)視頻有了更好的認(rèn)識(shí)