On August 2nd, 2007, YouTuber Michael Crowe uploaded a video titled 'Takeshi Murata,' which featured a montage of datamoshed videos (shown below). In 2006, a technique created by artists Betrand Planes and Christian Jacquemin transcodes one lossy video format into another was demonstrated with the modified DivX video codec DivXPrime.
According to the tech blog Bit_Synthesis published a post titled 'Datamoshing – the Beauty of Glitch,' the practice of datamoshing had been used by digital artists since at least 2005.