Philip Adams

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Philip as seen from the intro to the OSFirstTimer show.

Philip Adams is the 20 year old host, director, and OS preparer for the OSFirstTimer YouTube Channel. He is also the creator of the time-travel game Histacom and the famous "make your own OS" game called ShiftOS. He is currently with his family including Diana Adams, his mother and OS tester.

Inspiration of OSFirstTimer

According to the History of OSFirstTimer, his exploration into operating systems began when Philip asked for a computer to play a math game at home. Diana and Philip arrived at a computer store and bought a computer with Windows XP on it (it is unknown whether it was Professional or Home Edition). They also looked for the math game Math Blaster: In Search of Spot, but the store did not have it. However, there were several games that were compatible with Windows 95 and Windows 98. They bought a few of these games even though they did not know that they could run these games in compatibility mode. So, for several years Philip explored Windows XP and what it could do, sparking his interest in OS's. However, after a few years he received a BSOD and got another PC with Windows Vista on it. He did explore Vista too, but not as much as XP. He would also play games on the internet as well. He then found out about a program called Virtual PC and downloaded it with a copy of Windows 95. He explored each of these versions of Windows, making several virtual machines running several versions of Microsoft Windows, and did videos on them. He also became interested in the development of Windows Vista and downloaded the build releases for Windows 7.

When he was 12, he became interested in making Time Lapses, and posted them on his 12padams Youtube Channel, but deleted them after a while because the channel never became popular.

He then started another channel, I2padams, with tutorials he had to do in school, called Up to Date, along with all of his Astral Projection videos and other random stuff, like his sister playing Minecraft and eating a yucky lunch. He also advertised Histacom, a game where you start in Windows 95, and eventually upgrade to Windows XP in 2002, where there is someone killing the internet, and you have to go in the past to fix the future.

One day, he learned about RSI in school, and a little while later, he got it. For a while, he stayed away from the computer and wrote a couple of books, until he learned about TMS, a possible cure for RSI. He then made Let's Plays on his AstralPhaser channel.

He eventually became bored with the games and since he had cured RSI, he became interested in Windows 8 development, and when it came out, he had his mom try it, making the OSFirstTimer channel. The channel is his mom trying to find replacements for Windows 8. Now, they do it for fun, as his mom now has a Windows 8 laptop to replace her Windows XP one. They used to "shaky cam" method, until the Windows 95 video, where they started to use a green screen to show the operating system and Diana/Ben. On May 17, 2014, he started to make "Dad Tries Out" videos. On that channel, they also do tutorials, unboxings, and comment videos.

A month later, he had also made a TerrifiedMum channel, with his mom trying scary games, but he has since abandoned the channel.

He made a channel in early 2014, called ArchLinuxAdventures, where he started in a terminal in Arch Linux and eventually evolved it by downloading the LXDE desktop environment, Compiz, and many programs. It was originally going to have around 512 episodes, but it only had 15, (ep. 0-14) as it was hard enough to focus on his OSFT channel, and wanted to work on ShiftOS more.

He now has a website on freeforums for the OSFT channel, but as of May 17, 2014, he is no longer active on it.

Philip is worked on ShiftOS, a game where you start with just a terminal and evolve it into a fully-functional graphical interface, however he has stepped down from it, and now two new people are now admins and developing ShiftOS.

As of 2014, he has 6 channels- I2padams, AstralPhaser, OSFirstTimer, TerrifiedMum, ArchLinuxAdventures, and ShiftOS, 7 if you include his deleted 12padams channel. Only his OSFT and ShiftOS channels are currently active.