But amazingly
不过令人惊喜的是
people all over the world
世界各地有很多人
uploaded lots and lots and lots of video
上传了很多很多很多视频
and it just went into a database of Google that nobody could see
这些视频都被存放在一个没人能够看到的谷歌数据库中
So a Friday night later
之后在一个周五晚上
we got together and decided to watch some of these videos and see
我们决定坐在一起观看其中一些视频
what we should do with this new experiment
讨论一下我们应该怎样进行这个新实验
We opened the first video and waited
我们打开第一个视频 然后等待
It was of a purple furry puppets
视频中是一个毛茸茸的紫色木偶
dancing and singing in Swedish
用瑞典语唱着歌 跳着舞
You know, just what we're used to watching on TV
就同我们平时在电视上看到的视频类似
It was probably one of the first user generated videos anyone had ever seen
这或许是人类有史以来的第一个用户自创视频
and honestly, I had no idea what to think
老实说 我没有太多感想
but my kids knew what to think
但我的孩子们显然很有感想
They cheered. Play it again
他们欢呼说 再放一次
We played that video a lot
那个视频我们播放了很多次
The videos were unusual
这些视频很不寻常
I hadn't seen anything like it before
之前我从没见过这种东西
They were interesting and funny and more
它们很有趣 很搞笑
importantly everyone wanted to see more of them
更重要的是 人们都想看更多视频
We started building out a platform called Google Video
我们于是建立起了一个平台 叫作谷歌视频
for users to upload and see their videos
让用户上传和观看自己的视频
And every day we're getting more and more uploads to Google Video
每天 谷歌视频的上传量都在增加
We had our first hit
之后我们首次获得成功
And it wasn't from where you thought it would be from
或许你们想不到它来自哪里
It was 2 college students, 2 Chinese college students in their dorm room
视频中 两个中国大学生在寝室
singing and dancing to the Backstreet Boys
随着后街男孩的歌曲唱着跳着
with their roommate doing their homework in the background
背景里则是他们的室友在做作业
And in spite of this, it became the first video to reach 1 million views
这成为了首个观看次数超百万的视频
which was a lot back then
这在当时是个很大的数字
That clip gave us an insight about the future video
这一视频让我们对未来视频有了更好的认识
