Primitive Technology

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Primitive Technology is a popular YouTube channel about making things from scratch without any modern tools or materials. It’s not just what it’s about that I like, but, to quote Roger Ebert, how it’s about what it’s about. There is no talking. Context is provided in terse subtitles that remind me of the methods section of scientific papers (“a fire is lit by using a fire stick“). Primitive Technology doesn’t follow the attention-maximizing techniques employed by other successful channels, and it’s that difference in style that makes it so watchable.