The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls.
At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer.
View the web archive through the Wayback Machine.
Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from September 2012.
TIMESTAMPS
The Wayback Machine - https://waybackassets.bk21.net/20121105034011/http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=16554&parent=TopLevel&ctx=topic
