YouTube was created on February
14, 2005 when three former PayPal employees started the
Internet name "YouTube.com" and began to create a video-sharing website on which users
could upload, share, and view videos.
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Before working with
PayPal, Hurley studied design at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
YouTube's initial
headquarters were located above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
The first ever YouTube video titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The
video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site with
the first ever YouTube comment.
During the summer of 2006, YouTube was
one of the fastest growing sites on the Web, uploading
more than 65,000 new videos and delivering 100 million video views per day in
July. It was announced
that the company would be purchased on October 9, 2006 by Google for US$1.65 billion.
In January 2012, YouTube stated that the figure had increased to four billion videos streamed per day. I think that the more time progresses the higher the view numbers on YouTube videos will increase.
For me this website is far different than any other social network. Myspace, Facebook and Twitter all have the same qualities, sharing posts, pictures and messages between the world. Unlike the others, YouTube doesn't have any other site like it, it's one of a kind and hasn't faded away from the public in over 7 years. YouTube has kept its popularity growing instead of fading over the past years and i strongly believe it will continue this way.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube