The Old Tube

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Over 1 Billion individuals visit the most popular video viewing website, YouTube, every year. YouTube is a website where anyone can upload videos and share them with the world! In fact, over 100 Hours of video are being uploaded every Minute! By the time you're done reading this paper, hundreds and hundreds of hours of video will have been uploaded! But, how did YouTube start? Where did the idea come from and how did it become the most popular video viewing website? The idea of YouTube was created in 2005 by 3 former PayPal employes; Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. These men were at a party and wanted to share some video clips with friends, but realized there was no easy way.

The headquarters for YouTube started above a pizza place in California, where the domain for YouTube was activated on February 14, 2005. YouTube began as Venture-funded technology (An investment provided to companies in an early stage, with High potential) and was started by a 11.5 Million dollar investment. Jawed Karim uploaded the first video on YouTube in April of 2005, it is called “Me at the zoo” and is still available to watch to this day. After that upload they decided to open a beta testing of YouTube in May of 2005, and the official launch took place 6 months later in November. The site “Blew up” and just 6 months later YouTube announced that more than 65,000 videos were being uploaded every day. YouTube was growing very fast, very quick. Unlike other video sharing websites YouTube encouraged everyone to upload videos, and the best part is, It's free! With social media on the rise, people could share experiences with other people like never before. Instead of just pictures of your kid blowing out the 4 candles on his cake, you could s...

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...urs of the videos to match those in the 1900's. In 2012 YouTube made it so when you click on their Logo in the top left of the screen you are taken to a site where you can buy the complete “YouTube Collection” that consisted of every YouTube video every posted. You had the option of Video Cassette, DVD or Laser disc. The commercial for this stated that the “YouTube Collection” was a complete YouTube experience offline! The prank youtube pulled in 2013 probably pranked the most people. YouTube partnered with a company called “The Onion” and made a video claiming YouTube started as a video contest. A contest so they could find the best video ever. It also stated the contest was coming to an end and that they would take the website offline and spend the next 10 years going through all the videos trying to find the best one and the website would come back online in 2023.

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