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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.

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:

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.

Furienna · 02-13-2015, 11:57 AM

Aw, has it been ten years already? Time flies...

Bonniegirl · 02-13-2015, 12:15 PM

How cool!!! Happy Birthday YouTube!!

robyrob · 02-13-2015, 12:41 PM

...and coincidentally 10 is the maturity level of the average YouTube commenter!!

02-13-2015, 11:55 AM	#1
Vahan Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 14, 2008 Posts: 2,712	YouTube turns 10 tomorrow! 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. 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: 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.

02-13-2015, 12:41 PM	#4
robyrob certified wackball#3 Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Aug 03, 2003 Location: hiding under the third booth at Arnold's Posts: 58,182	...and coincidentally 10 is the maturity level of the average YouTube commenter!!
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02-13-2015, 11:57 AM	#2
Furienna Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Oct 22, 2006 Location: Örnsköldsvik, Sweden Posts: 6,280	Aw, has it been ten years already? Time flies...

02-13-2015, 12:15 PM	#3
Bonniegirl AKA Hazel Horvath Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 10, 2014 Posts: 65,614	How cool!!! Happy Birthday YouTube!!