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Show HN: Play 20 Back, the Music Videos being aired exactly 20 years ago (play20back.com)
7 points by cutcss on Dec 14, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Hi guys, I'm the creator of this. It is just a little experiment about doing some sort of 'ongoing nostalgia'. That means right now it is airing videos from December 1994, and the idea is that it will keep advancing that way (e.g. next month it will show videos from January 1995).

If you have any feedback or questions about it feel free to post them here.


What's interesting is the massive difference between the US and Europe. I was very much around in '94 (I was 22 back then) and I honestly don't know the majority of these videos. Interesting idea though.


I guess the videos are manually collected, right?


The billboard magazine archive has some historical account of the most played videos (of some weeks not all), so I'm mostly extracting the video names from there; finding the video on YouTube is also automated but that last part does need some human supervision. So I guess you could say is done pseudo-manually.


Dec 94 == freshman year of high school for me. This is definitely going to be a nostalgiafest.




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