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'''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 from and currently lives in Tasmania, Australia with his parents [[Diana Adams|Diana]] and''' '''[[Ben Adams]] and his younger sister [[Jasmine Adams|Jasmine]]. He lived with his family in several appartmentsapartments in Sydney until January 2018, when they moved into a house in Hobart, (Tasmania) with him.

Philip also edits for a fitness company located in Sydney, Australia. Some elements he includes in the videos for the company inspiredare himalso included to include them onin 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 secondary computer and an iPhone 7 (3GB RAM and 32GB storage space) as his phone.

On May 12th 12, 2008, Philip started a project named [[Massive Archive]], in which he tries to vlog almost anything everydayevery 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 basically 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.'').

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 but wanted to try new games and couldn't because he hadn't finished the old ones first.

He eventually became bored with the same games and, 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, and. whenWhen 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 used to do comment videos as well. 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 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.

[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''.

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 3rd3,  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/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]''

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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 down in April. The successor of this forum is currently [http://tech-talk.ml Tech & Talk], which was also eventually (partially) replaced with the ''AstralPhaser 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].

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, 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.

Some viewers have mentioned that his videos are loosely prepared, and that it still feels like 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 properly, and that up to recent times. 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)].

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. In order 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.

*After about 7 years of making content, he only has managed to get over 90K subscribers.