"the offset volt" YouTube channel deleted. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: kashinath
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 09:57:11 am
content: This was an electronics related youtube channel (https://youtube.com/c/TheOffsetVolt/videos) It's gone. It had a series of videos on Elenco radio kit. Please help me find these videos. Is there any way to watch deleted YouTube videos. Another YouTube channel devtty0 (https://youtube.com/c/Analogzoo/videos) is gone. I don't know it is YouTube or the creaters who deleted their channel.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 11:38:59 am
content: I remember a few interesting videos from devtty0, strange that is gone. Googled it and found some random link to the blog, and that one is gone, too, sais the domain registration has expired.https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/321031/crystal-oscillator-design-and-crystal-drive-levelhttp://www.analogzoo.com/2015/07/http://www.analogzoo.com/lab/pierce_bjt.htmlHowever, I've clicked out of curiosity the "please contact your registrar" (I'm not devtty0, I've clicked there in the hope to find out when the analogzoo domain has expired), and got an error page sayingQuoteDo you happen to know what was the nationality of the owners for the now missing YouTube channels?

author: Simmed
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 11:44:36 am
content: i like the offset videos

author: Chris Jones
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 11:54:03 am
content: If you can find an old link (maybe in your browser history) to the exact youtube URL of the video, you could try that in web.archive.org - they do have some Youtube videos archived.

author: bte
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 09:17:03 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on January 04, 2025, 11:38:59 amAnalogzoo was in the US. He had my MHS5200A (more like it went to him first) and made videos about it and then sent it to my address:https://web.archive.org/web/20190328124226/http://www.analogzoo.com/2016/08/revisiting-the-mhs5200a/The archive also has his channel:https://web.archive.org/web/20230923120524/https://www.youtube.com/@Analogzoo/videosI tried playing his latest video as a test (the one about "negative resistance") and it worked OK.

author: pqass
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2025, 09:40:15 pm
content: Here's thelink to The Offset Volton web.archive.org.It doesn't list videos prior to 82 for me.82 can't be found when played but 86 does.

author: hwasti
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 03:05:11 am
content: I was mistaken when I posted the following. See later post clarifying this.Youtube had announced a policy last year that if someone has not accessed their channel in a number of years (2 or 3 years), they will declare the channel as orphaned and delete it. I believe it went into effect January 1, 2025.How old were the videos? Is the channel owner still alive?While I can see Youtube's point of cleaning up clutter by deleting old and irrelevant videos, that policy also catches some rather unique and niche content that is not available elsewhere and that is important to a segment of people, maybe to the society at large.This is especially true for some older technologies where the practitioners who really knew the stuff are getting old and passing on and the knowledge is dying with them. It is sad that the critical information that some of them archived in their videos is also going to be lost.Youtube has to decide if they are a folivorous site for people to post meaningless content, or if they are a reference source and a site of record. It seems they have chosen to be the former. Sad. Very sad indeed.There will never be another Jim Williams or a Bob Pease. They shared their knowledge freely and the books, articles, white papers and app notes they wrote will live on in paper and electronic document form. What if they had done all their work on Youtube? It would be an immense loss to society if all their content disappeared 3 years after their death.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 05:38:32 am
content: Quote from: hwasti on January 05, 2025, 03:05:11 amTheir fame would've been sufficient for others to save their work even while they're alive.What's more worrying is the content of the highly obscure and detailed creators.Storage is very cheap these days, so whenever I see something that I like and its future existence is in question, it gets saved.

author: MathWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 09:29:46 am
content: I used to watch a bunch of The Offset Volt video's, he made good video's and gave good explanations without getting to deep into the math.Was he getting too old and gave up making them? It's a shame if they aren't still on youtube then.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 05, 2025, 10:44:29 am
content: Quote from: hwasti on January 05, 2025, 03:05:11 amDo you have any link about that announcement, please?Asking because I've just searched a moment ago forhttps://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=youtube+deleting+old+accounts+2025&ia=weband all I can find are news/articles/blogs from 2023, where they say YT will NOT delete the content of inactive accounts.https://cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-announces-it-wont-remove-old-videos-if-their-inactive-google-account-is-deleted/https://gizmodo.com/google-will-not-delete-old-youtube-accounts-with-videos-1850454500https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/05/googles-new-inactive-account-policy-wont-delete-years-of-youtube-videos/Those are random search results and they all seem to be from 2023, did YouTube changed their mind later?

author: hwasti
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 06, 2025, 05:20:18 pm
content: Good catch RoGeorge. You are absolutely right.There was a recent video by Fran of FranLab where she was talking about this and lamenting the future of her 1000+ videos after she is gone. I think this was in the last 3 months, maybe even last month, but I could be wrong there. I took her for her word and did not do any more research. My bad.Researching it right now, it appears that Google will delete inactive accounts after 2 years, but will not delete YouTube videos associated with those accounts. But a few places suggested that the URL for the video will change due to the account disappearing. If the account is no longer there, how are the video organized? Can you even find all videos from a defunct creator or will they pop up if you use search terms related to each video?This leads to the question about the falling tree in the forest: If no one can find it online, does it really exist online?Here's one article that says that the original announcement from Google in 2023 explicitly stated that they will delete YouTube content. After public uproar, they updated the blog and removed "YouTube" from the list. After that they pretended that they had never intended to delete YouTube content and acted aggrieved that someone would think that they would do such a thing. Here's that link:https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/technology-verify/google-not-deleting-inactive-youtube-video-accounts/536-96d2f709-c5eb-47a3-8fc8-a92e6778c615

author: hwasti
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 06, 2025, 05:29:31 pm
content: Quote from: amyk on January 05, 2025, 05:38:32 amYou do know that both of them died in June 2011?Jim had a stroke at work and died after a couple of days in a coma.Bob died a week later in a car accident while returning from a memorial event for Jim.Both were quite young: 63 and 70 respectively. 60's and 70's used to be old. But now that I am knocking on the doorsteps of my 60's, 63 feels positively youthful!

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 06, 2025, 06:01:47 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on January 05, 2025, 10:44:29 amI guess not deleting inactive channels could at some point become a problem for google. Lets say laws change or YT come up with some new way of using videos, so they need to update the agreement for posting videos, if there is no one to accept the new agreement what else can they do?

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 07, 2025, 03:26:11 am
content: Quote from: hwasti on January 06, 2025, 05:29:31 pmYes, I know they aren't alive anymore; but their fame was enough to make others preserve and spread their work even while they were.

author: Simmed
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 07, 2025, 04:00:18 am
content: https://www.youtube.com/@andyaronsonnsc/videosthis 1 is still working

author: kashinath
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 26, 2025, 06:49:26 pm
content: Thank you everyone for this insightful discussion. I am still unable to access the videos. Wayback machine keeps loading and videos don't play. I tried with VPN too. If someone is able to to download from internet archive and upload somewhere, I'll be very grateful.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 27, 2025, 04:25:06 am
content: I always treat any online service, be it Youtube, Netflix etc... as a temporary source. For those channels I absolutely love and watch religiously, I download their videos with yt-dlp. You can even download entire channels or playlists all in one hit.Obviously laws surrounding downloading such content differ in different parts of the world. If it's illegal where you are, that's a matter for yourself.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 27, 2025, 10:45:04 am
content: Quote from: langwadt on January 06, 2025, 06:01:47 pmIgnore the old videos with old agreements and just don't use them for whatever new shit they want to do?I know of at least one channel whose owner died i think in 2018. Though his wife kept the channel active for a couple of months afterwards.But now there hasn't been any new videos on the channel for a long time, and the channel has not been deleted.

author: the-happy-diode
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 20, 2025, 01:01:28 am
content: the internet archive only lists the videos, when you try to watch the page just forwards you to youtube, where it says video is not available.when i noticed that the offset volt channel was gone i started downloading all my favorite YT channels, i now have all of xray tony's videos and trevors bench to name but a few. for this the linux program 'yt-dlp' is your friend. if you need to download entire websites the linux program 'wget' is your fren.