Vahan
02-13-2015, 11:55 AM
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow will be the 10 year anniversary of one of the single greatest websites in history: YouTube.
YouTube was first started on February 14, 2005 in the San Francisco Bay Area in San Mateo, California by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Here they are, pictured below, in order. The men who built YouTube from the ground up. A year later, YouTube was purchased by Google. It is now currently at San Bruno, California.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Youtube_founders.jpg
Throughout the first decade of YouTube, it has become a place for people to share their own video blogs (or Vlogs for short), for people to become celebrities there, and also for film, TV, and music buffs to share ALL sorts of footage and audio, from the well-known, to the not-so-well-known, and thought-to-be-lost-forever. It has also become the go-to site for people to upload video game footage for video game walkthroughs, as well as speed-runs and hacks and homebrews.
Happy 10 year anniversary YouTube! Here is the first version of the interface:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/YouTube_screenshot_2005.png
And here is the video that started it all, "Me at the zoo". Filmed by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, and uploaded by Jawed Karim (jawed), one of the YouTube co-founders, at 8:27 pm on Saturday, April 23, 2005.
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YouTube was first started on February 14, 2005 in the San Francisco Bay Area in San Mateo, California by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Here they are, pictured below, in order. The men who built YouTube from the ground up. A year later, YouTube was purchased by Google. It is now currently at San Bruno, California.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Youtube_founders.jpg
Throughout the first decade of YouTube, it has become a place for people to share their own video blogs (or Vlogs for short), for people to become celebrities there, and also for film, TV, and music buffs to share ALL sorts of footage and audio, from the well-known, to the not-so-well-known, and thought-to-be-lost-forever. It has also become the go-to site for people to upload video game footage for video game walkthroughs, as well as speed-runs and hacks and homebrews.
Happy 10 year anniversary YouTube! Here is the first version of the interface:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/YouTube_screenshot_2005.png
And here is the video that started it all, "Me at the zoo". Filmed by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, and uploaded by Jawed Karim (jawed), one of the YouTube co-founders, at 8:27 pm on Saturday, April 23, 2005.
jNQXAC9IVRw