No Outlets

Every day you use things your ancestors would have found impossible. A machine that wakes you. A box that makes winter in your kitchen. Hot water in the wall. A switch that turns night into day.
No Outlets is about how people handled all of it before any of that existed — and the answers are stranger than you'd think. Britain once hired people to tap on your bedroom window with a long pole. Persians made ice in the desert. Romans shared a sponge on a stick.
Every video takes one ordinary part of your day and traces it back to how it actually worked before modern life, with the real history and sources in the description.
New video every week.