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{{Profile Infobox|title1 = Philip Adams|image1 =
He lived with his parents [[Diana Adams|Diana]] and [[Ben Adams|Ben]] Adams and his younger sister [[Jasmine Adams|Jasmine]] in an apartment in Manly, Sydney until January 21st, 2018, where they moved into a house in Hobart, Tasmania.
Philip also edits for a fitness company located in Sydney
In December 2020, Oscar Liang (''MightyEagle73''), content creator and veteran patron of OSFirstTimer's now-closed Patreon page, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPonsYts6Dk&list=PLhQFtoCivDjbOESSIlKfg8GuIuORro2l8 drove to Melbourne and took the Spirit of Tasmania down to Tasmania from Melbourne]. He went with his dad and met up with Philip on 11th of December 2020. He helped Philip record and edit the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wf6GnHq0ys&t 2020 Gaming Through The Ages Episode] on OSFirstTimer, which was published four months later. He then returned to Philip's house on the 14th of December 2020 and they had their final talk before Oscar went back to Sydney.
As his main computer, Phil currently uses an Mwave custom-built PC, which the specs are listed of in OSFirstTimer's ''[https://www.youtube.com/c/OSFirstTimer/about About]'' section. A Samsung Galaxy S10+ phone, with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage space, was used as his phone and camera, until he replaced it with a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 in December 2021. His previous computer, an Alienware Area 51 from 2014, was replaced by his current one due to failing hardware, and the PC before that, a Lenovo ThinkStation was used but replaced with the Alienware PC due to increasing slowdown as well as increasing hardware incompatibility with newer software. He also used to own a Microsoft Surface Pro 3, but he sold it in 2019, due to his phone being capable enough to replace a portable computer for him.
▲Philip also edits for a fitness company located in Sydney, Australia. Some elements he includes in the videos for the company are also included in OSFirstTimer videos as well. One example of that would be the ''lower thirds'', which are the introduction slides/blocks with descriptive text, appearing mainly on the bottom of videos/documentaries.
==Early life==
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Diana and Philip tried getting ''Math Blaster'' at the shop, but couldn't find it. Philip, upset, bought some other educational games. After playing the games, he quickly got bored. As Philip did not have the Internet at the time, he decided to explore other parts of XP, like the screensavers, games and help articles. He was amazed at the seemingly unlimited potential of his computer, even without the internet.
Sometime in the period from 2002-2004 (likely 2002), Philip visited [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu Vanuatu] by a cruise ship as the only country apart from Australia he has visited in his life.
Philip spent years exploring Windows XP, until sometime in 2007 when he got the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death Blue Screen of Death] (BSoD). His computer soon stopped working, so he had to get a new one. He bought the computer the day Windows Vista was released in Australia, so the new computer came pre-installed with Vista.
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On May 12, 2008, Philip started a project named [[Massive Archive]], in which he tries to vlog almost anything every day, including his thoughts, activities and family-related things. He started uploading some of these vlogs in early 2015, but before that, he did not have the intention of making it public. In February 2019, he even decided to do a series named ''OSFT Archive'' on the channel [[OSFT Historic VLogs]]. It is a summary/commentary series of the vlogs contained in the archive, where Philip compares his past and present self and points out other differences and ''bad/unprofessional'' things. The series' episodes represent each month since the beginning of the archive (e.g.: ''Episode 1 - May 2008, Episode 2 - June 2008, etc.'').
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He learned about RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) at school, and a little while later, he got it. For a while, he stayed away from the computer as it hurt his fingers and wrote a couple of books until he read an online article about TMS, a possible cure for RSI. He then made Let's Plays on a new YouTube channel called AstralPhaser. He was originally going to call this channel RSIGamer, but that would remind him of RSI. On this channel, he played games such as Minecraft.
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He eventually became bored with the same games, since he wanted to play new ones (which he couldn't do, due to not finishing the games he'd started). By this point, TMS had cured his RSI, and he became interested in Windows 8 development. When it came out, he had his mum try it while filming her, starting the OSFirstTimer channel
They used what they called the ''shaky cam'' method, until the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5AMQJokcwU Windows 95 video], where they started to use a screen recorder to show the operating system and a green screen to show Diana and Ben. On May 17, 2014, Philip started to make ''Dad Tries Out'' videos. OSFirstTimer also does tutorials, unboxings, and used to do
'''[[OSFirstTimer|More about OSFirstTimer]]''' [[File:AstralPhaser channel (
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[https://www.youtube.com/user/AstralPhaser AstralPhaser] is a gaming <span>YouTube</span> channel that's home to Philip's ''Gaming Through the Ages'' series, where he plays games dating from 1975 to the present day, exploring 44 years of gaming console history. It is also home to the ''AstralPhaser Weekly Chat'' where members of the ''AstralPhaser Central'' Discord server meet, discuss and ask questions. These videos are unedited as of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEVowt8LEQ episode #11]. The ''Weekly Chat'' has been discontinued since August 2017; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3R75QrE2eo episode #22] is the last episode, and the last video related to the server is called ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTjD--YDpE Experiment - Are The AstralPhaser Central Mods Abusive/Ban Happy?]''. AstralPhaser's original purpose was to upload Lets Plays of Philip playing various games to help him progress in overcoming RSI, and recording proved helpful in keeping his mind on something else other than RSI (hence the name change from ''RSIGamer'' to ''AstralPhaser''). An Oculus Rift game playthrough series was uploaded before the ''Gaming Through the Ages'' series. AstralPhaser last uploaded on December 15, 2017.
'''[[AstralPhaser|More about AstralPhaser]]''' [[File:I2padams channel (
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[https://www.youtube.com/user/I2padams/videos I2Padams] was one of Philip's first <span>YouTube</span> channels. This channel is a replacement for his first (now deleted) ''12padams'' channel and contains videos about ''Histacom
'''[[I2padams|More about I2padams]]''' [[File:TerrifiedMum channel (
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A month after creating [[OSFirstTimer]] in 2012, Philip started the [https://www.youtube.com/user/TerrifiedMum TerrifiedMum] YouTube channel where he gets Diana to play scary games as decided by Phil or requested by the viewers. As of November 2018, the channel is inactive. The channel started with a brief playthrough of the original Slenderman game, then went on to other titles, including Oculus Rift games. The content later expanded to include a reaction video series named ''Diana Watches''. TerrifiedMum last uploaded on August 14, 2017.
'''[[TerrifiedMum|More about TerrifiedMum]]''' [[File:Arch Linux Adventures channel (
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Philip made a channel in early 2014 called [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFkV1ZTArpBIeDu6FUl2guA Arch Linux Adventures], where he started in a terminal in Arch Linux and eventually evolved it by downloading the LXDE desktop environment, Compiz, and many more compatible programs. It was originally meant to have around 512 episodes, but it only had 15, (ep. 0-14) as it was hard enough to focus on his OSFirstTimer channel, and Philip wanted to work on ShiftOS more. Arch Linux Adventures last uploaded on March 1, 2014.
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Philip worked on ''ShiftOS'', a game where you start with just a terminal and evolve it into a fully-functional graphical interface (like Arch Linux). However, he has stepped down from its development. From that point on, two new people were admins and developing ShiftOS, but later quit doing that (for currently unknown reasons), making the project officially inactive. ShiftOS also has its own [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNbI1RyOMRyZye2_HLSy7w YouTube channel]. ShiftOS last uploaded on October 12, 2014.
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'''[[OSFT Historic VLogs|More about OSFT Historic VLogs]]'''
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Around January 2017, Philip created the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA6BA33cmiuJKcpW174A-JA TiaB KcilC] channel in secret (now public). [[File:TiaB KcilC channel (
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[[File:Original Let's Explore channel before it became community hubb.PNG|thumb|300x300px|Original ''Let's Explore'' YouTube channel, before it became the Community Hub.]] In late 2016 Philip created the original Let's Explore <span>YouTube</span> channel which later evolved into the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR7i2K59kFOjYZ0tGgS7AOg Let's Explore Community Hub].
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More about Let's Explore on the [http://lets-explore.wikia.com/wiki/Let%27s_Explore_Wiki Let's Explore Wiki] and [[Let's Explore|this wiki]].
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Another channel he partially manages is the channel [[Char Char Gaming]], which is primarily owned by his sister [[Jasmine Adams|Jasmine]]. On the channel, he made thumbnails and wrote descriptions for the videos she made. He was also featured in several videos of the Minecraft Let's Play series on the channel. This channel has become inactive as the last video published on the channel was on March 16th, 2019.▼
Other channels he partially manages are [[Char Char Gaming]] (primarily owned by his sister [[Jasmine Adams|Jasmine]]) and [[Diana Adams|Diana]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4HqdhpMTfLJimOAtnrJ7Cg personal channel].
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Diana's channel mostly consists of vlog-type videos, but also contains a prank video where she and her children prank her husband Ben, and used to also have a commercial-like skit video for the vitamin tablets by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berocca Berocca], which, albeit having been quite popular within the OSFirstTimer fanbase, is now no longer on the channel. The activity of the channel is unknown.
The earliest known controversy goes back to the video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTOavWs6Aw Top 3 Worst And Best Operating System User Interfaces (1985-2012)] ''which was published in December 2012. At that time, people misunderstood the video for a '''''World's''' Top 3'' video and/or found the listed operating systems to
Back in April 2013, Philip published a prank video called ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AhJ-fGQsfo OSFirstTimer - Talking About Operating Systems Prank]'' on the OSFirstTimer channel, which got a substantial
▲== Controversy & Criticism ==
▲The earliest known controversy goes back to the video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTOavWs6Aw Top 3 Worst And Best Operating System User Interfaces (1985-2012)] ''which was published in December 2012. At that time, people misunderstood the video for a '''''World's''' Top 3'' video and/or found the listed operating systems to be loosely tested out by Diana and Phil. The current like-to dislike ratio is around 2.13 likes for every dislike.
Some viewers have mentioned in the past, that his videos are loosely prepared and that it still feels as if Diana/Ben
▲Back in April 2013, Philip published a prank video called ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AhJ-fGQsfo OSFirstTimer - Talking About Operating Systems Prank]'' on the OSFirstTimer channel, which got substantial amounts of backlash. The backlash has its roots leading back to 4chan, where users shared that video and described it mockingly. The main points they listed is that Phil is ''miserably failing at being funny and relatable ''and that he ''is either an attraction for autistic people ''or'' being autistic himself''. Other people would go for making fun of his voice being ''too frog-like''. The backlash eventually grew to the point where the video is having a like-to-dislike ratio of about 1.34 likes for every dislike, which is worse than the previously listed controversy. Since then, OSFirstTimer was often associated with ''cringe'', but in more recent days, the backlash for that video has almost gone away.
Another controversy is his fanbase's action of doxxing Philip's current home address and/or phone number, although there is no report of Philip and his family having been
▲However, Philip's general type of humour and delayed knowledge of internet memes creates controversy as well, so does his overconcern and/or misinformation about topics such as radiation, sunscreens or even geographical knowledge. Religious jokes and references are also made by him and his parents sometimes, especially about the ''devil's number'' 666 and god. The controversy has been built up for alleged reasons such as them'' shoving their religion onto other people's faces'','' being too uneducated, ''and/or them ''telling their audience things that were debunked before. ''Especially the radiation scenario has either been debunked or joked about a few times in the past, even by his viewers/subscribers.
Up to this day, Philip and his parents had to do several long-term tasks and/or jobs, leading to Philip having
▲Some viewers have mentioned that his videos are loosely prepared and that it still feels as if Diana/Ben '''and Phil''' are trying out operating systems and programs, and not ''just'' Diana or Ben themselves. This means that there are a few things still being improvised and/or not fully researched upon. On the other hand, other viewers find that Phil is restricting Diana too much, making her actions limited to the things that Philip finds ''interesting or watchable for their viewers/subscribers''. However, Diana's purpose is (or was originally) to be portrayed to be a computer-illiterate person, trying out another operating system/program for the first time and in her '''own''' way. Several scenes were included in videos where even Diana herself questions Philip as to why he is restricting her to do her own actions. Examples are the episodes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reh15duZMAg Mum Tries Out Solaris 11.1 (2012)] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdRzvw0HhlU Mum Tries Out Solus 1.1 (2016)].
OSFirstTimer videos from 2022 onwards had a slight influx in comments and remarks both within and outside of YouTube regarding political affiliations of Philip and/or Diana. Furthermore, remarks have also been made on how videos seemed to leave an advertisement-like impression rather than being an actual review or tryout, albeit with most of those comments being mostly vague. Other comments, that did expand on these remarks, included claims such as Philip's mother Diana being advertised. It is believed that those more detailed claims of advertisement have been made due to the campaign, that has been going on at around the same time, of Diana having been a senate candidate for the Tasmania division within the United Australia Party for the 2022 Australian Senate Election. They added onto that theory, that Diana might potentially get a higher amount of votes within said election due to her viewers, while possibly also ''"deceiving"'' her audience to think of the party positively. This situation has also led to the departure of many editors for the OSFirstTimer Wiki, even leaving the public message on the main page behind, that they do not support said political activities. The Adams family then corrected factual information left within that public message later on.
▲Another controversy is his fanbase's action of doxxing Philip's current home address and phone number, although there is no report of Philip and his family having been unwantedly visited by OSFirstTimer subscribers so far. However, they do not recommend/condone to be doxxed (or to doxx in general) as privacy and welfare is still needed to be respected regardless of subscribers being long-time or recent fans.
Philip's series of videos, that started in 2023 and regard the topic of artificial intelligence, are also increasingly garnering negative feedback, with claims ranging from ''repetition of a topic that has been fading in popularity/favour'' to ''supporting a dangerous cause through positive exposure of it to a large audience,'' with the latter being a similar claim and feedback to what both Diana herself and some viewers in the comment section had of the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX2ciMITRaY Mum Tries Out Tails OS 0.2.3 (2014) + Deep Web], albeit less nuanced or elaborated on in comparison to the Tails OS video.
▲Up to this day, Philip and his parents had to do several long-term tasks and/or jobs, leading to Philip having less and less time to maintain his channels and produce, edit and upload videos. This was especially apparent in the years 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, with 2015 and 2019 being the most dormant years of the OSFirstTimer channel. When he did have time, it was most likely that his mother Diana didn't, leading to further delays of episodes. To avoid further dormancy, he started his Gaming Through The Ages series in December 2015 and the OSFT Archive series in February 2019, with the latter being due to the renovations in their house. These series are much easier to produce episodes of, as it doesn't require Philip to edit videos as professionally as he would normally do for OSFirstTimer episodes. However, with all that happening and being done, many of his subscribers still aren't happy about the continuous dormancy of OSFirstTimer, which has resulted in many hate comments so far.
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**Instead, Jasmine is the main host, due to the channel
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