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{{Profile Infobox|title1 = Philip Adams|image1 = Download.jpg|born = 21/04/1994|age = 27|nationality = Australian|channel_role = Host, Director}}'''Philip Joseph Adams''' (born on April 21, 1994, in Sydney, Australia) is the host, director, and preparer of operating systems and software 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 ''
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 down to Tasmania from Sydney] 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 13th 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, is used as his phone and camera. 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.
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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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. 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 910 in August 2017. Diana still uses her Yoga 910 today.
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 (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''AstralPhaser YouTube channel'']]
=== '''AstralPhaser''' ===
[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 (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''I2padams YouTube channel'']]
=== '''I2padams''' ===
[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 (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''TerrifiedMum YouTube channel'']]
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=== '''ShiftOS''' ===
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.
=== '''OSFT Historic VLogs''' ===
[[File:OSFT Historic VLogs channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''OSFT Historic VLogs 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
'''[[OSFT Historic VLogs|More about OSFT Historic VLogs]]'''
=== '''YouTube Millionaire''' ===
[[File:YouTube Millionaire channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''YouTube Millionaire YouTube channel'']] 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.
=== '''TiaB KcilC''' ===
Around January 2017, Philip created the [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA6BA33cmiuJKcpW174A-JA TiaB KcilC] channel in secret (now public). [[File:TiaB KcilC channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''TiaB KcilC YouTube channel'']] TiaB KcilC, reversed for ''Click Bait'', 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:
=== '''How To Quickly''' ===
[[File:How To Quickly channel (November 2018).png|thumb|300x300px|''How To Quickly YouTube channel'']] 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:
=== '''What The Heck Just Happened''' ===
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* [[AstralPhaser]] ''(discontinued)''
* [[TerrifiedMum]] ''(discontinued)''
** Temporary replacement
* [[OSFT Historic VLogs]] ''(Semi-active)''
* [[YouTube Millionaire]] ''(discontinued)''
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== 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
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
However,
Some viewers have mentioned that his videos are loosely prepared and that it still feels as if Diana/Ben
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 unwantedly visited by OSFirstTimer subscribers so far. However, they do not
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.
== Trivia ==
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