Editing BitView (section)

== History ==
The domain was registered on November 15th, 2017, with development starting. By November 28th, the beta version was finished, and was officially released on December 2nd. At the time, the site was a HTML5/CSS3 recreation of YouTube looked in the first half of July 2005. The purpose of this site was to display the different interfaces that YouTube has displayed throughout its history, in chronological order. Thus, in January 2018, The BitView layout had it's first redesign and was based on a later 2005 version of YouTube.

By April 2018, the site was redesigned again to be similar to how YouTube was in the beginning of 2006. Various features from that era were added, such as subscriptions and bulletins. During this period of time, the platform became very popular among users, and was experiencing one of its golden times.

The popularity of the site was at a decline after the abandonment of the site around 2019, as Jan was working on VidLii. However, The development of BitView was revived around the latter part of 2020 and it was redesigned to look more or less like how YouTube was in 2008. Shortly after, the video compression quality was improved.

Around the beginning of 2022, BitView and VidLii were bought by the Kolyma Network, and the site was redesigned to resemble how YouTube looked in the first half of 2009. However, this was done by introducing a CSS stylesheet written by BitView user herotrap. Disabling this stylesheet via Inspect Element allows one to return back to the previous layout. In Feburary 2023, BitView was bought by Evie and Sks2002, and was soon redesigned again to resemble YouTube in late 2009. Alongside this change, the new owners announced the return of the original developers of BitView, Jan and vistafan12.