Ten years on, revisiting YouTube’s first viral sensation
The first YouTube viral video that blew me away, in terms of content and in showing the potential of democratized video, was the anonymous Korean kid shredding Pachelbel's Canon in D in his bedroom:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8</a><p>The Times wrote a story about it here: "Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last"<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.html?ref=arts&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.htm...</a>