Got a conundrum for you all. WWDC 2005 and 2006 sessions...

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Got a conundrum for you all. WWDC 2005 and 2006 sessions are basically lost media. I have found two live URLs of 2006 sessions from the wayback machine:

- http://devimages-cdn.apple.com/ADConiTunes/WWDC2006Videos/Session%20000%20-%20Mac%20OS%20X%20State%20of%20the%20Union.mov
- http://devimages-cdn.apple.com/XcodeNews/Session101-What'sNewinCocoa.m4v

I've been slotting in filenames from this archive (https://nonstrict.eu/wwdcindex/wwdc2006/) but nothing seems to be a match. I have no idea if I'm doing something wrong or if these are strangely the only two sessions available.

Like 3 June at 22:10 | Open on hachyderm.io

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Tyler Hillsman

@samhenrigold When you’re looking for your next conundrum to solve:

In 2020 (remember those times?), at the end of the Platforms State of the Union, they showed a montage of black and white stills of developers working from home with a “we appreciate you” sort of message. However as far as I can tell, this was never released in any streamable/downloadable form after the live broadcast. I’d like to find it. (I was one of the developers shown.)

3 June at 23:02 | Open on mastodon.social

sam henri gold

@thillsman That’s bizarre. They’ve done this a couple times, pulling a live segment for the VOD (there was a video at the Sept 2017 event that used a Beatles song and I’m guessing they couldn’t get the rights to stream it forever) so that’s lost media as well.

I’ll snoop around to see if it’s anywhere

3 June at 23:11 | Open on hachyderm.io

Tyler Hillsman

@samhenrigold You’re my favorite spelunker. 🤗

3 June at 23:39 | Open on mastodon.social

sam henri gold

@thillsman Leo is yapping over the whole thing but https://twit.tv/shows/twit-news/episodes/357

3 June at 23:43 | Open on hachyderm.io

Tyler Hillsman

@samhenrigold Wow, you’re a wizard! Thanks! I’m so glad that wasn’t a 2020 fever dream.

4 June at 0:23 | Open on mastodon.social

sam henri gold

full disclosure, I ran through those two URL schemes with all of the session names and didn't get anything beyond those two original URLs. Generated URL list I tried: https://gist.github.com/samhenrigold/fa8c1c2120dbf31d6e649df2dd72665f

4 June at 1:57 | Open on hachyderm.io

sam henri gold

fuzzing? is that the next step here? idk im out of ideas

4 June at 1:59 | Open on hachyderm.io

Brendan Shanks

@samhenrigold finding someone who hoarded all the WWDC sessions back in the day (@siracusa?) seems like the only hope

5 June at 22:02 | Open on mastodon.social