{"id":8620,"date":"2012-07-07T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2012-07-07T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T19:39:42","slug":"time-travel-via-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/07\/time-travel-via-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel via YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via everywhere on the internet, here&#8217;s Jeremiah McDonald, who used a 20-year-old videotape of his younger self to carry on a conversation across time. (Seems legit at a casual glance, but I suppose it could be faked.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_XFGAQrEUaeU\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XFGAQrEUaeU\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XFGAQrEUaeU\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M47S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-07-05T15:27:54Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_XFGAQrEUaeU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XFGAQrEUaeU\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition<\/div><\/div><button tabindex=\"0\" class=\"play\"><\/button><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XFGAQrEUaeU\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/XFGAQrEUaeU\/0.jpg\" alt=\"A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Using real footage of myself at age 12, I edited this conversation with myself at age 32. It went viral, I met my wife, etc etc. Please enjoy. How I made it: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-DuscXVyxI Watch the original 1992 tape: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f-I7Bro5Dt8 See the 1992 prequel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7IyJeasvs40 2006 version: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2rSs80_DKKs Media coverage: The Today Show \u2013 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JgQ1ZXYD0mQ NBC Nightly News \u2013 https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/from-1992-boy-addresses-his-older-self-44468803749 CNN \u2013 http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/bestoftv\/2012\/07\/19\/exp-nc-mcdonald-12yoself.cnn HuffPost \u2013 https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/jeremiah-mcdonald-filmmaker_n_1652851 Entertainment Weekly \u2013 https:\/\/ew.com\/article\/2012\/07\/10\/jeremiah-mcdonald-qa-viral-video-star-on-interviewing-his-future-self\/ Inside Edition \u2013 https:\/\/www.insideedition.com\/headlines\/4665-man-talks-to-his-12-year-old-self-in-youtube-sensation Los Angeles Times \u2013 https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-tn-12-year-old-conversation-with-himself-20120709 All Links: https:\/\/linktr.ee\/jeremiahcontent Join my mailing list: https:\/\/www.jeremiahcontent.com\/ Become a patron: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/jeremiahcontent One-time donation: https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/jeremiahcontent Download the soundtrack: https:\/\/jeremiahmcdonald.bandcamp.com\/releases Follow me: Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeremiahcontent\/ Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JeremiahContent\/ Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremiahContent Tumblr: http:\/\/jeremiahcontent.tumblr.com\/\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Sadly we can&#8217;t actually transfer information into the past.  If we could, I would have started writing this book a bit earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via everywhere on the internet, here&#8217;s Jeremiah McDonald, who used a 20-year-old videotape of his younger self to carry on a conversation across time. (Seems legit at a casual glance, but I suppose it could be faked.) Sadly we can&#8217;t actually transfer information into the past. If we could, I would have started writing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}