- Hey guys, it's Justine!
I'm very excited because today,
you may recognize this!
This is the original iPhone!
The first generation.
This is the eight gigabyte model.
I did an unboxing of this fairly recently
and it was sealed, unopened.
I got it from eBay.
A lot of you were speculating on the price,
but I'll just leave that up to your imaginations.
Whatever it was that I paid or it was 100% worth it!
This phone specifically, has a lot of sentimental value
because this phone represents a time in my life
where basically I was just trying to figure out
what I was going to do, with the rest of my life.
At least in the near term future,
now going on 11 years of making YouTube videos.
12 actually!
(gasps) I just recently had my 12 year YouTube anniversary!
That's crazy!
But long story short, a lot of things happened
because of this phone, and this phone inspired me so much
to keep creating content.
And it's also because of this phone, a video I created,
that I'm sure many of you have seen,
and if you haven't seen it, it's okay.
It was the iPhone bill video.
I've talked about it before,
but this was one of those videos where people
actually saw it and not just saw it
in my immediate fan-base or my friends
and family, it was something that was all around the world.
And for me, being made fun of for making videos
on the internet, which is totally fine
because there was clearly
something to making all those weird videos on the internet.
But it gave me this realization that what I was doing
was actually something and it was important
and it was the future, so I kept doing it and here I am,
many many years later.
So all in all, the reason that you're here
is because you wanna see this phone.
I just so happened to be going to the Apple Store
to get my iPhone X fixed.
I'm having a bunch of camera issues, so they replaced
the camera and while I was there, I was just like hey, so,
I got this original iPhone.
I was making like this quick little Instagram video,
thinking that it wasn't actually gonna work.
Okay, we are on a mission, and that mission
is to get this iPhone to work but no promises.
But my hopes are very high.
Now here I am, telling you the story of what exactly
happened at the Apple Store, to get this phone to work.
So what was happening was iTunes
wasn't recognizing this phone.
So, what my friend did at the Apple Store,
thank you Dakota, you're the absolute best!
While my phone was getting fixed, he was like this is easy,
all we gotta do is force it into recovery mode and download
whatever the last version of iOS this would support.
Look at this, look at this!
Oh you sweet status bar!
What's gonna happen?
My phone has been restored!
Okay, I'm freaking out!
Something's happening and I'm so sorry for filming
this video in vertical.
Oh no, what's that mean?
Oh no!
- [Dakota] Let's see if it recognizes it in a second.
There you go.
Oh yeah! - Oh my!
I'm freaking out!
You guys don't understand, oh my goodness!
- [Dakota] Look at this home screen man.
- I'm trying really hard not to cry.
- Don't cry! - No!
I think it's all zoomed in!
I'm sorry, I'm freaking out.
That's my first picture!
- [Dakota] That's cool.
- Okay, I'm having a moment.
My first picture that I took.
Wow, look at this! - It's insane.
- This is something that I did
not think was gonna happen today.
And here it is, it's officially setup.
I'm so excited, stay tuned 'cause we're gonna make
some really fun videos with this.
So the version of iOS that this ended up
installing was version 3.1.3.
I was really hoping to get the first 1.0 version of iOS
but honestly, just being able to get
this thing to work is super exciting.
It's also kind of interesting because I'm not really able
to login to any of my email accounts
because I use two-step authentication.
So every time that I enter my password,
it says it's the wrong password.
I'm like no, the password's right
but it doesn't actually know how to authenticate.
The way you sign in now, it'll open up a browser,
it'll say enter your password and then it'll say
the two-step authentication
and then you enter your phone number.
But it didn't quite work so well on here.
Also what's interesting is,
let's see if we can surf to a new website.
Say hello to the future.
Oh my goodness it's so slow.
It could be my WiFi or it could be this phone.
Come on, let's go, you can do it,
or is that the end of the page.
That's definitely not the end of the page.
Giant step for iPhone.
That's quite the scroll.
If you guys recall, you couldn't even copy and paste
in the first version of iOS.
But here's notepad, listen to that.
You actually can select all, copy and paste.
There also wasn't an App Store,
so downloading apps was just not a thing,
like that was just not something that happened.
Whatever came pre-installed was what you had.
I remember the work around was people
were creating HTML5 apps.
So essentially, you would go to a website
and that would kind of be your app.
One of the things that I did try
in the Apple Store was I wanted to watch a YouTube video.
I was like, let's watch a YouTube video on the first iPhone,
in the Apple Store, the second
that I got this thing activated.
Spoiler alert, it didn't work!
Oh my gosh, YouTube isn't available,
so it's not gonna work, I'm so upset.
This is what the YouTube app looked like.
It came pre-installed on everything.
But, that's what happened.
This is the first picture that is on my iPhone.
It's probably one of the worst pictures ever,
but I think it really does encompass a lot of my feelings.
I was quite surprised,
especially because I had zero expectations
and I didn't think this was gonna work.
Here's the second photo that I took,
just a picture of the Apple Store.
So here are the pictures in high resolution.
Surprisingly, the photo quality is actually not that bad.
I mean, it's not that great.
I was also thinking, wow wouldn't it be cool
to do a video test, but there was no video
on the first iPhone. (scoffs)
I think there were some sort of apps,
if I do remember correctly, they did sort of capture video.
It was basically just kind of taking
a screen recording of your camera screen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I vaguely remember that.
So heres the App Store, I haven't tried to load this yet,
so let's see what happens.
It doesn't look like it's loading.
(gasps) It loaded!
Okay wait, I'm not gonna be able to use an AR app on here.
Let's see if there's something I can download,
let's see if I can download the Starbucks app.
No!
How will I get my coffee?
So what's crazy is that I can't really do much on here
because there isn't any actual service.
So the 2G network is not supported any longer on AT&T.
I really can only do things on WiFi.
Since there's no iMessage, I can't actually send
any messages at all.
You can only send text messages through a carrier.
I can't make a phone call, there's no WiFi calling.
Nope, call failed.
See here's the messages, can't do anything.
Okay let's go through the apps.
Here's the calender, IJHQ, this is not focused.
I'm gonna be very upset if it's not!
Let's go into Photos, see what the Photo app looks like.
I now have three photos, me super excited,
the Apple Store, me filming this video.
So heres what the share function looks like.
You can email the photo, assign to contact,
use as wallpaper.
So we did YouTube already, but obviously nothing happened.
Let's try stocks, looking mediocre.
Maps, it's kind of crazy because Google Maps
came pre-installed on here.
So let's zoom in, see where we can go.
Arkansas, hello, anybody from Arkansas, shout out!
Weather.
Voice memos, let's try this out.
Hello, hi!
Play.
Hi, hello?
Hey, what's up?
Next we have notes, just type some nonsense.
Clock.
♪ No alarms and no surprises ♪
Calculator, oh, riveting, looks the same actually.
Here's our settings.
Apple Store, oh what's this.
Oh, I wonder if I can sign in,
its not gonna make a difference 'cause I can't do anything.
iTunes, let's take a look at this.
(upbeat music)
Oh, it quit.
We already saw the App Store, so let's take a look
at what the contacts looks like,
I don't have any contacts, boo-hoo.
Mail, I tried to setup mail but it wouldn't let me.
Safari, we saw what that looked like.
And iPod, I don't have any music, so sad.
This is also another crazy thing, I find it very strange,
I know when people say things like oh the universe,
the universe, it works in mysterious ways,
I say it because it really, really does.
I was in San Francisco and I went to MoMA
and they had this display where it was made in California,
so obviously they had a whole display of Apple products.
Of course I went in, I was making some videos
and taking pictures,
you guys may have seen my Instagram story,
if not, I will add a highlight so you guys can check it out.
This was one of those moments, which happens all too often,
it makes you think how did I happen to be at this moment
at this time for this specific thing to happen.
I was making an Instagram video of these three sketches
and I was like this is awesome,
these sketches are sketching out
what a mouse will be and how it will work.
So it basically was the prequel
to the mouse that we know today.
These illustrations were done in 1983
and it just so happened that the guy
who did those illustrations, also just happened
to stop by to see the display!
And I didn't believe him at first,
what are the odds of this!
And then I'm just like freaking out because I don't think
he had any idea of what a huge Apple fan I was.
So he was like no, I really did do this and his friend
that was with him said yeah, he did this!
He told me some really cool stories
about creating those sketches and stuff like that.
But it was definitely an extremely memorable moment.
I just wanted to leave you guys with a little bit
of that video because it was a really special moment for me.
Mostly just because of how the universe works,
how random occurrences like that happen
and it really is crazy that you never know
who you're gonna meet.
I don't even know how to explain this, but this is just one
of the crazy things that happen in life.
So I'm just sitting here looking
at these incredible sketches here,
admiring one of these prototypes of the Apple mouse
and of course, one of my most favorite computers ever.
And the guy who did these sketches just walks up--
- [Man] In the year of your birth.
- [Justine] What year was this?
- 1983.
- So 1983, so a year before I was born.
So I mean, how does it feel to be here
and just kind of seeing your sketches?
- Well that's a fair thing to ask,
I mean it's sort of like old friends
and the thing is, none of you will ever be this old,
you kinda go, first thing is have I done anything
of consequence since.
That means, in sketching,
when you're not happy with your sketch,
you're really happy with the fact and honored
that they've been displayed,
and you're wondering what should I do next.
- I mean, this is incredible though.
Really, this is so awesome.
I just can't believe it, I'm kind of in shock.
I didn't even believe him,
he had to get his driver's license out,
don't show them, don't show them!
And he put it right next to his name here,
so that I would believe it and I did.
This is so cool, thank you so much for sharing your story
with me, this is so cool,
anything else you wanna share about these?
- Just thank you Justine for passing it along.
Beautiful. - This is amazing!
Okay well thank you guys so much for watching,
I really appreciate it and I appreciate you guys
who may have been here all this time, who may be new.
It's really cool just to sort of see
the evolution of technology.
I've been able to document so much of it over the course
of my lifetime and it's amazing
just to be able to still do this and share it with you guys.
I'll have some more fun videos coming up soon.
So if you guys aren't already subscribed,
please do so 'cause I just found an old laptop from 2007!
This was the computer that I started my YouTube career on.
So I look forward to showing you guys that because wow!
I turned that on and I'm like I need to do a reaction video
to some of the things that I found!
Crazy, (yells) I'm so excited!
Again, thank you, I'll see you later.
Subscribe, hit the bell, like this video or don't.
Do whatever you wanna do, I'm out!
I gotta go edit this now 'cause I'm so excited.
(upbeat music)