Just old videos but not the old episodes.
I was playing poker with buddies while it was showing on the news in the background.
It doesn't do back that far, but MTV is airing 120 Minutes every weekend. I've been enjoying it, but sometimes the nostalgia is so powerful that I feel uncomfortable.
Thanks for asking for clarification. Which parts do you feel you understood, and which parts were unclear?
It's true we can treat every release as a test, but the explication and front-loading of (remaining) existential assumptions is key and, I believe, worthy of a term such as "MVP".
The traditional mindset was to treat releases as delivering value. The MVP concept shifted the mindset to 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 the product's core value proposition and other existential assumptions in the earliest release, being deliberate about what we are testing and how we will measure it.
Yoskovitz acknowledges that a throwaway riskiest assumption test (RAT) is also valuable: "I’m a big believer in [test]ing your riskiest assumptions first, and doing it without building an MVP." Still, you front-load the remaining (potentially existential) risks in the first iteration of the product.
It's special because we front-load the disproportionately risky hypotheses so critical to the viability of the product that planning much for succeeding iterations is probably wasteful.
We can iterate on a product while testing hypotheses, deliberately focusing the first iteration on disproportionately risky hypotheses. I don't see a problem with calling that first iteration the "MVP".