MTV – saved and rewound
A short while back, MTV—a.k.a. MTV Music—stopped broadcasting. Their website went fairly dead as well. The music video phenomenon didn't start with MTV but without MTV, it would have gone nowhere.
Now, a developer has taken it upon themselves to try and save the feeling that MTV was. Enter MTV Rewind.
What's saved:
- 120 Minutes (6,063 videos): The holy grail of alternative rock and shoegaze.
- Headbangers Ball (1,604 videos): A shrine to thrash and heavy metal.
- Yo! MTV Raps (348 videos): The golden age of hip-hop, preserved.
- MTV Unplugged (343 videos): Stripped-back intimacy from before auto-tune ruled the charts.
- Club MTV (232 videos): For the techno and house heads.
There are also decade-specific buckets—ranging from the experimental MTV 70s (268 videos) to the massive MTV 2020s (8,050 videos)—proving that the music video format isn’t dead, it just lost its home.
Here's an embedded example of MTV Rewind:
For more information about the project, see this Midnight Rebels post.