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'''Philip JoesphJoseph Adams''' (born on April 21, 1994 in Sydney, Australia) is the Australian 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 iscomes and currently livinglives in Australia with his mumparents [[Diana Adams]],''' '''his dadand''' '''[[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.

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, alaswhile filming her, starting the OSFirstTimer channel beganwith 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 laptop to replace her old Toshiba Windows XP one. They used what they called the "shaky cam" method, until the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5AMQJokcwUwith Windows 95 video], where they started to use a screen recorder to show the operating system and a green screen to show Diana/BenXP. OnThe MayAlienware 17, 2014, Phillip started to make "Dad Tries Out" videos. OSFirstTimerlaptop also does tutorials, unboxings, and comment videos. Diana has now got areplaced Windowslater 10 laptop,with the [[Lenovo Yoga 910]]510 in August 2017.

[https://www.youtube.com/user/AstralPhaser AstralPhaser] is a gaming <span>YouTube</span> channel that's home to PhillipPhilip'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 weeklyWeekly chatChat'' 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 PhillipPhilip playing various games to help him progress in overcoming RSI, recording proved helpful in keeping his mind on something else other than RSI (Hencehence 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 PhillipPhilip's first <span>YouTube</span> channels. beingThis startedchannel inis 2009a asreplacement 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 2two 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, PhillipPhilip 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. TheAs TerrifiedMumof channelNovember is semi-active with2018, the thechannel occasionalis uploadcurrently 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 ArchLinuxArch Linux),. however;However, he has stepped down from its development,. andFrom nowthat point on, two new people arewere admins and developing ShiftOS, but later quit doing that (for currently unknown reason), making the project officially inactive. ShiftOS also has it'sits own active [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. However,The channel also contains hevideos hasincluding a 58-minute long video on his channel of Ben and Diana Adams marrying on October 3rd, 1992, beforeand Philipa wasvlog evenvideo bornof them moving from Sydney to Tasmania in late January 2018, which is almost two hours long.

In late 2016, PhillipPhilip 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. The channels related to Youtube Millionare experiment are:

TaiB KcilC, anagram for clickbait, is part of the <span>YouTube</span> Millionaire experiment. ThisThe channel is an experiment to see if videos with clickbait titles can assist to draw in more viewers and contribute to the <span>YouTube</span> millionaireMillionaire 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, PhillipPhilip 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 e.g. Examples are '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=catOyhz2sPo How To Quickly: UseBulk VirtualDelete DesktopsEmails ViaFrom TheA KeyboardSender Inin Windows 10'Gmail]'' and '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCJrG8JWNwE How To Quickly: View Older Versions Of Websites']''

How toTo Quickly's motto is: "Because''...because two minutes is too long"''

In late 2016, PhillipPhilip 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 releasedpublished 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 PhillipPhilip 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 (Initiallyinitially starting with Phil's local beach, back when he lived in Sydney).

PhillipPhilip 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''Let's explorers"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 OSFTOSFirstTimer 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.Techtalk 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 [[Categoryhttps:Cast]//bits-bytes.wikia.com/ official wiki].