# NationSquid: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-28, NationSquid has 526,000 subscribers, 84,906,900 total views, and 145 videos. It ranks #145,308 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [NationSquid](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for NationSquid is “The Day the Whole Planet Went Online”, a long-form video published Oct 26, 2026.
- These are NationSquid’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Feb 1, 2025 and Oct 26, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 126,387. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Why the 2000s Looked That Way” (1,154,596 views, May 4, 2025). Least viewed: “Hey hey!” (0 views, Feb 3, 2026).
- Median length: 21:53 for 47 long-form videos.
- In this sample, NationSquid’s consecutive uploads were a median of 13 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 39 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Day the Whole Planet Went Online](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/05pe-1IEKxU/) | 2026-10-26 | Long-form | 49,692 | 21:31 | 1.02x |
| [Why Were the 2000s So...Emo?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/q8AY_ZDUAYI/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 313,868 | 29:01 | 4.22x |
| [How Cults Haunted the Early Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/fEHxsAjtJG0/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 73,719 | 21:53 | - |
| [The Tricks Companies Used to Stop Piracy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/aUnz6LDotLM/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 269,946 | 24:03 | 2.85x |
| [The Gibberish Phrase That Haunted Old Newspapers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/n17r71p_g94/) | 2026-09-16 | Long-form | 234,267 | 18:35 | 2.46x |
| [Wikipedia IS a Reliable Source, Actually.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/R96jkIS81Zw/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 65,514 | 23:37 | - |
| [Why So Much of Early Television is Lost](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/LyPX7Nn8c-Y/) | 2026-08-16 | Long-form | 330,591 | 19:25 | 3.44x |
| [What the Internet Was Like in 2001](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/SZmDu2cHxqQ/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 95,336 | 19:56 | 1.1x |
| [We Forgot How Good DVDs Were](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/teteLE65J50/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 183,341 | 26:18 | 2.03x |
| [Where Do These Weird Screensavers Come From?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/OuCxXhPMlU8/) | 2026-07-21 | Long-form | 49,628 | 19:54 | - |
| [iBook - The Most Important, Forgotten Laptop](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/JmuabFlmOCU/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 45,068 | 19:23 | - |
| [Why Was 90s Television Like...That?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/CPI7jODa_6I/) | 2026-06-03 | Long-form | 63,147 | 38:34 | - |
| [How Mac OS X Changed the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/4Srtrfe0nP0/) | 2026-05-25 | Long-form | 94,069 | 22:27 | 2.03x |
| [What the Internet Was Like in 2005](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/Qqy4RxyH2kU/) | 2026-05-19 | Long-form | 130,120 | 23:07 | 1.09x |
| [Why You Can't Type This Sentence in Windows](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/7Dj85G2qhc8/) | 2026-04-29 | Long-form | 308,103 | 22:01 | 2.6x |
| [What Made Google So Special](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/S_yEdcSKOk0/) | 2026-04-01 | Long-form | 52,061 | 24:26 | - |
| [What the Internet Was Like in 2000](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/G1ayX2Imu6U/) | 2026-03-19 | Long-form | 121,614 | 21:49 | 0.98x |
| [The Mistakes That Ended Yahoo Answers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/vZUPg_4SMpg/) | 2026-03-01 | Long-form | 86,051 | 21:12 | - |
| [Where Are All the Free Programs?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/fnwGPpVbKS4/) | 2026-02-25 | Long-form | 174,171 | 26:07 | 1.22x |
| [Hey hey!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/62PYg1ChkMA/) | 2026-02-03 | Long-form | 0 | - | - |
| [Weird Scams From the Early Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/ikB4P3S3tMs/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 115,709 | 20:10 | 0.9x |
| [The Slow Collapse of Yahoo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/qUrIissAtcI/) | 2025-12-23 | Long-form | 126,486 | 24:28 | 0.98x |
| [Were These Disturbing 90s Urban Legends Real?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/hw3dJb_mPTc/) | 2025-12-19 | Long-form | 56,876 | 25:00 | - |
| [The Lost Online Worlds of the 2000s](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/i1Rwi7t0hG0/) | 2025-12-16 | Long-form | 83,767 | 22:49 | - |
| [The Failure That Powers Your Computer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/10VAte3-Kbw/) | 2025-12-01 | Long-form | 155,979 | 27:15 | 0.83x |
| [Why Were the 70s So...Weird?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/L-c_29lgDFc/) | 2025-11-27 | Long-form | 445,725 | 33:24 | 2.47x |
| [Why Does Nobody Use Linux?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/WuSgJMghp-I/) | 2025-11-13 | Long-form | 811,448 | 24:42 | 5.15x |
| [The Dead Browser Still Powering the Web](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/3vZdfztD_WM/) | 2025-10-29 | Long-form | 406,437 | 23:40 | 2.7x |
| [Creepy Viruses From the Early Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/n4G6wWK9_h8/) | 2025-10-03 | Long-form | 130,747 | 23:17 | 0.87x |
| [Whatever Happened to Desktop Assistants?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/cZVJJ39qMXg/) | 2025-09-14 | Long-form | 76,760 | 23:36 | - |
| [Weird Internet Legends from the 1990s](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/WcTBMwKWGFE/) | 2025-08-20 | Long-form | 126,287 | 21:14 | 0.74x |
| [The Disastrous Fall of AOL](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/x2Dgg_UjTzk/) | 2025-07-31 | Long-form | 221,718 | 21:34 | 1.19x |
| [Where Did the 1980s Aesthetic Come From?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/ZmSl3ZeEb9M/) | 2025-07-15 | Long-form | 271,303 | 31:02 | 1.58x |
| [The Wildest Tech Commercials of the 90s](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/CkCwCE0rRWY/) | 2025-07-03 | Long-form | 51,841 | 17:21 | - |
| [The Internet Was Scary in the 90s](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/HSCnQvxqteE/) | 2025-06-29 | Long-form | 136,629 | 23:51 | 0.91x |
| [The Computer War We Forgot \| Mac vs. PC](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/wsSMq07AdwM/) | 2025-06-01 | Long-form | 178,780 | 27:27 | 1.28x |
| [The Lost Video Sites of the Early Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/qcUtS6worYc/) | 2025-05-26 | Long-form | 164,415 | 20:11 | 1.43x |
| [What the Internet Was Like in 1995](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/QqiUSbXx7Wg/) | 2025-05-12 | Long-form | 663,460 | 20:48 | 5.77x |
| [Why the 2000s Looked That Way](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/QV1kPFj4RRY/) | 2025-05-04 | Long-form | 1,154,596 | 23:07 | 10.05x |
| [The Halloween Documents \| Microsoft's Darkest Secret](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/LXJ6MJIbhEs/) | 2025-05-01 | Long-form | 63,222 | 18:00 | - |
| [Forgotten Websites of the 1990s](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/NFM4wZ70ssM/) | 2025-04-25 | Long-form | 194,920 | 18:51 | 1.7x |
| [The History of Instant Messaging](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/uDwI4z1-YWM/) | 2025-04-01 | Long-form | 59,994 | 16:45 | - |
| [The Worst Video Game of All Time](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/fAmR4pLo0yA/) | 2025-03-28 | Long-form | 46,315 | 18:45 | - |
| [I Downloaded Notorious Computer Viruses From the Past (ft. GEEKOM A6)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/Yv_jsxTOplk/) | 2025-03-02 | Long-form | 115,077 | 19:35 | 0.62x |
| [The Forgotten Tech Trends of the 2000s](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/-sv6KsgA74w/) | 2025-03-01 | Long-form | 114,652 | 14:31 | 0.62x |
| [Why We Can't Get Rid of Spam](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/B_vBD_LZaHU/) | 2025-02-24 | Long-form | 70,275 | 17:18 | - |
| [How the Internet Solved a 30-Year-Old Mystery](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/F5bHFsfV7vk/) | 2025-02-18 | Long-form | 191,733 | 17:24 | 0.98x |
| [The Version of Windows You'll Never See](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@nationsquid/videos/5-7XWQ4IA_8/) | 2025-02-01 | Long-form | 176,673 | 14:19 | 0.83x |

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