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Will It Blend?

You might remember it as blending an iPhone, Blendtec Will It Blend

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2006·Early YouTube·funny

The series that proved a company could build an audience rather than buy one.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
blending an iPhone
Spread in
2006
Format
Video
Era
Early YouTube
Made by
George Wright, Tom Dickson and Kels Goodman, for the blender maker Blendtec
Performed by
Tom Dickson, the company’s founder
Origin
Origin not yet established
Available
Playable from the source

Why it matteredWhat changed

A blender company’s founder fed a camcorder, an iPad and an iPhone into his product, and the series ran for fourteen years.

TimelineIn order

  1. Posted

    The first videos are released.1

  2. Mainstream

    Dickson blends things on The Tonight Show.1

  3. Picked up

    He blends an iPad.1

  4. Picked up

    He blends an iPhone 4.1

  5. Later

    The final episode is released, shortly before the company is sold.1

LegacyWhat it left behind

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Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This is the copy ViralWorld can show you. Whether it is the first is not established.

Where it came fromWhat we know

Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.

View this upload on YouTube

No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.

When
The sources below date the original to 2006-10-30. ViralWorld records this as a cited claim rather than an established publication date, because it holds no copy to check it against.
Where
Known on YouTube.

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Will It Blend?

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