不过令人惊喜的是

　　people all over the world

　　世界各地有很多人

　　uploaded lots and lots and lots of video

　　上传了很多很多很多视频

　　and it just went into a database of Google that nobody could see

　　这些视频都被存放在一个没人能够看到的谷歌数据库中

　　So a Friday night later

　　之后在一个周五晚上

　　we got together and decided to watch some of these videos and see

　　我们决定坐在一起观看其中一些视频

　　what we should do with this new experiment

　　讨论一下我们应该怎样进行这个新实验

　　We opened the first video and waited

　　我们打开第一个视频 然后等待

　　It was of a purple furry puppets

　　视频中是一个毛茸茸的紫色木偶

　　dancing and singing in Swedish

　　用瑞典语唱着歌 跳着舞

　　You know, just what we're used to watching on TV

　　就同我们平时在电视上看到的视频类似

　　It was probably one of the first user generated videos anyone had ever seen

　　这或许是人类有史以来的第一个用户自创视频

　　and honestly, I had no idea what to think

　　老实说 我没有太多感想

　　but my kids knew what to think

　　但我的孩子们显然很有感想

　　They cheered. Play it again

　　他们欢呼说 再放一次

　　We played that video a lot

　　那个视频我们播放了很多次

　　The videos were unusual

　　这些视频很不寻常

　　I hadn't seen anything like it before

　　之前我从没见过这种东西

　　They were interesting and funny and more

　　它们很有趣 很搞笑

　　importantly everyone wanted to see more of them

　　更重要的是 人们都想看更多视频

　　We started building out a platform called Google Video

　　我们于是建立起了一个平台 叫作谷歌视频

　　for users to upload and see their videos

　　让用户上传和观看自己的视频

　　And every day we're getting more and more uploads to Google Video

　　每天 谷歌视频的上传量都在增加

　　We had our first hit

　　之后我们首次获得成功

　　And it wasn't from where you thought it would be from

　　或许你们想不到它来自哪里

　　It was 2 college students, 2 Chinese college students in their dorm room

　　视频中 两个中国大学生在寝室

　　singing and dancing to the Backstreet Boys

　　随着后街男孩的歌曲唱着跳着

　　with their roommate doing their homework in the background

　　背景里则是他们的室友在做作业

　　And in spite of this, it became the first video to reach 1 million views

　　这成为了首个观看次数超百万的视频

　　which was a lot back then

　　这在当时是个很大的数字

　　That clip gave us an insight about the future video

　　这一视频让我们对未来视频有了更好的认识