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[[File:Philip Adams (I2padams).jpg|thumb|220x220px|''Philip Adams'']]

'''Philip Joseph Adams''' (born on April 21, 1994 in Sydney, Australia) is the host, director and preparer of operating systems for the [[OSFirstTimer]] YouTube channel. He is also the creator of the time-travel indie hacking game ''Histacom'' and the make-your-own OS game ''ShiftOS''. He comes and currently lives in Australia with his parents [[Diana Adams]] and''' '''[[Ben Adams]] and his younger sister [[Jasmine Adams|Jasmine Adams]]. He lived with his family in several appartments in Sydney until January 2018, when they moved into a house in Hobart (Tasmania) with him.

Phil also edits for a fitness company located in Sydney, Australia. Some elements he includes in the videos for the company inspired him to include them on OSFirstTimer videos as well. One example of that would be the ''lower thirds'', which are the introduction slides/blocks with descriptive text, sometimes appearing mainly on the bottom of videos/documentaries.

He currently uses a 2014 Alienware Area 51 (with 32GB RAM) as his main computer, a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 as his tablet computer and an iPhone 7 (3GB RAM and 32GB storage space) as his phone.

He eventually became bored with the games and since TMS cured his RSI, he became interested in Windows 8 development, and when it came out, he had his mum try it while filming her, starting the OSFirstTimer channel with that. The channel's main aim was to find the best and worst operating systems (initially the worst operating system was Windows 8 but that changed when Diana tried out MS-DOS). Now, they do it for fun, as his mum (Diana) had a 2013 Alienware 14 laptop with Windows 8 to replace her old Toshiba one with Windows XP. The Alienware laptop also got replaced later with the Lenovo Yoga 510 in August 2017.

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/Ben. On May 17, 2014, Philip started to make "Dad Tries Out" videos. OSFirstTimer also does tutorials, unboxings, and comment videos. Philip even published the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLGm0W9QZc ''OSFirstTimer - House Tour!''] to the channel, which is a tour of their old apartment that they used to live in before they moved to Tasmania.

[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 41 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, recording proved helpful in keeping his mind on something else other than RSI (hence the name change from ''RSI Gamer'' to ''AstralPhaser''). An Oculus Rift game playthrough series was uploaded before the ''Gaming Through the Ages'' series.

[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''''', '''videos on ''The Phase''''' '''and also features some videos of an OS series he did called ''Up To Date''. Other videos include Minecraft being played by his then two year old sister Jasmine, a video of her eating a ''yucky lunch'' and Codelink running on an iPad 2 with Splashtop.

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 currently 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''.

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 reason), making the project officially inactive. ShiftOS also has its own [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNbI1RyOMRyZye2_HLSy7w YouTube channel].

In late 2014, Phil created a YouTube channel called [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVfkncOwFobkPS8W5KscJFQ OSFT Historic VLogs], where he publishes old and new, non-OSFirstTimer related videos such as videos from his childhood and parts of his daily life in more recent years of his life. The channel also contains videos including a 58-minute long video of Ben and Diana Adams marrying on October 3rd, 1992, and a vlog video of them moving from Sydney to Tasmania in late January 2018, which is almost two hours long.

In late 2016, Philip created the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2wLfbZrHQOxP2e5zkxYRjA YouTube Millionaire] <span>YouTube</span> channel posing the question whether it is possible to make a million dollars on <span>YouTube</span> in the next ten years with a series of different channels. The channel was originally kept secret but is now public.

TaiB KcilC, anagram for clickbait, is part of the <span>YouTube</span> Millionaire experiment. The channel is to see if videos with clickbait titles can assist to draw in more viewers and contribute to the <span>YouTube</span> Millionaire experiment. All videos on the channel have thumbnails designed to attract views.

Channel Description: ''This is a channel you ought to click on... What is it? Who knows! Just click on it already!!!''

In late 2016, Philip created the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ1GQeIhG-CSvwLHEkc9Mow How To Quickly] <span>YouTube</span> channel which uploads quick computer related tutorials on how to do certain tasks in the timeframe of 2 minutes or under. Examples are ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=catOyhz2sPo How To Quickly: Bulk Delete Emails From A Sender in Gmail]'' and ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCJrG8JWNwE How To Quickly: View Older Versions Of Websites]''

How To Quickly's motto is: ''...because two minutes is too long''

In late 2016, Philip created the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWdCNzSx5gYOm9XWDaACTQ What The Heck Just Happened] <span>YouTube</span> channel which showcases various magic tricks. A video showing Phil doing a trick is published and it is soon followed by a video explaining how the trick works. However, viewers must reenact the trick themselves in a video and link it to Phil's video, before the trick is revealed on his channel. If a trick video reaches 100,000 views and still hasn't been solved, then Phil will release hints and snippets of attempted submissions to help viewers figure out exactly what happened in the trick. [[File:The Let's Explore Community Hubb Youtube Channel on PC.PNG|thumb|300x300px|''Let's Explore Community Hub'' YouTube channel.]]

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].

Let's Explore involved Phil recording himself walking to various destinations in his local area allowing the viewers to decide what direction to go with <span>YouTube</span> poll cards, with the aim of exploring new locations (initially starting with Phil's local beach, back when he lived in Sydney).

Philip made 13 episodes of Let's Explore in his area but due to the distance required to reach episode starting points Phil ended his personal Let's Explore videos and transferred the channel to someone else, however, it wasn't the end of Let's Explore as the channel had become quite popular and others began making their own Let's Explore Channels, which is when the Let's Explore Community Hub came around.

A dedicated Discord server was created under the same name to allow for other ''Let's Explorers'' to meet and discuss.

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|on this wiki]].

* ShiftOS ''(inactive)''

== Freeforums & Discord ==

At one point in 2013 and early 2014, he had a forum on Freeforums for the OSFirstTimer channel, but constant DDoS attacks from MalwareUp starting in February 2014 caused him to shut down the forum in April. The successor of this forum is currently [http://tech-talk.ml Tech & Talk], which was also eventually (partially) replaced with the ''Astral Phaser Central'' server on Discord. Later, Philip decided to no longer maintain the server, leading to him handing over his administrative rights, leaving the server and the server being renamed to ''bits & Bytes''. More information on ''bits & Bytes'' can be found on its [https://bits-bytes.wikia.com/ official wiki].

== Controversy ==

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 in a mocking way. 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. Since then, OSFirstTimer was often associated with ''cringe''; in more recent days, the backlash for that video has almost gone away.

However, Phil's general type of humour and his 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. These jokes have also built up minimal controversy for the alleged reason of ''throwing their religion towards other people's faces''.[[Category:Cast]]