5 days after they launched I discovered Justin Kan and JTV. The concept of the site was interesting to me. Before Justin came around you had 24/7 video broadcasts but the cameras were always stationary. The fact that Justin had a camera on his hat and it was streaming live audio and video all day long was just amazing to me. The 1st month had to be my favorite because you got to see these 4 guys try and figure out what to do with this startup. You were able to watch and listen to everything. In later months Justin would start muting the mic but in that 1st month you got to hear all the brainstorming and arguments. The epic battles between Emmett and Michael. The mysterious Kyle who wasn’t on camera much but we would hear about how he was a home wrecker. Of course you had Justin who would take the cam in the bathroom when he peed and pooped. It was more than just watching Justin all day. You got to watch the entire JTV crew sitting on the couches in a small apartment joking around and shooting ideas off each other. You also got to watch them deal with all the media attention and of course the people on the street wondering why he had a camera on his head

Nowadays you see the occasional person complain about chat but it is 10000x better than the early chat days. When the site 1st launched the chat was horrific. The early days with the old lingr chat was just horrid and it is painful to even think about. I can remember a small number of people started a chat on the efnet irc server because site chat was so bad. I used to spend most of my free time in that chat. It is also the 1st time I talked to iJustine who used to visit the chat once in a while before she started broadcasting. Also a JTV regular who is still around was in the chat all the time. That person being SprintNXT. I can also remember the old Peanut Gallery chat being a lot of fun. I really miss those days.

I could ramble on about this topic but I think this post is long enough hah. Let me end it by listing some of my favorite early moments on Justin.tv. Please feel free to list some of your favorite moments from JTV in the early days in the comments.

• Of course everyone remembers the Police Raid.
• GGJeffy and Justin in the elevator.
• Justin’s first on air kiss
• Justin getting kicked out of the Gap and then reading my email later on about how I called the store.
• Justin’s love for the mustard shorts.
• Losing reception in the elevator
• Digh at the apartment wearing a GoDaddy shirt and Justin constantly looking at her chest. Goooodadddy!
• The Weeblies and Kyle sneaking into the bedroom and stealing the camera while Justin slept.
• Jumping in the pool after getting 100 diggs.

Like I said I could go on and on about this stuff. The great thing about JTV is that it has archives. The archiver didn’t work that well back then but there is still a lot of video archived from March and April of 2007 so feel free to go back to the beginning of JTV time and watch it from the start! Also check out some of the old Justin.tv fan blogs. Justin.tv The Real Cast and also Justin.TV Guide.

Justin and the crew are in the papers again. This time they make it into the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In the NY Times article they touch on some of the statistics for Justin.tv after they opened it up to everyone.

Justin.tv formally declared that it was open for business to one and all. In its first five days, the company said, it created 18,500 hours of video and pulled in 500,000 unique visitors.

also we hear from someone who we rarely hear anything from. Stewart Alsop, from the venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners who are one of the firms investing in Justin.tv.

“If there are 6 billion people in the world,” he said, “imagine one million people broadcasting live, 999,000 of whom are boring — but the other 1,000 are really interesting. – Stewart Alsop

Here are the full articles to check out. JTV continues to get positive press. Hopefully Justin and Justine will be able to get on a TV show together sometime.