When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain  20 years ago, they wanted to create
YouTube is elated to broadcast some numbers underscoring its dominance, including its recent report that viewers worldwide stream more than a billion hours of content on their TVs every day. That’s televisions, not handheld devices or computers — which one would assume drives that number a lot higher.
It’s hard to imagine a world without YouTube. Yet, this ubiquitous video platform is just celebrating its 20th birthday.
YouTube has officially turned 20 years old. That's right, the internet's biggest video platform as well as one of the most trafficked websites in the world, was founded on Feb. 14, 2005.
Turns out, YouTube wasn’t originally intended to be the world’s favorite destination for viral videos. When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, they made it a dating site.
It's hard to imagine a world without YouTube. Yet, this ubiquitous video platform is just celebrating its 20th birthday.
With more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, it is the most popular streaming app and remains the second-most-visited website in the world, after only Google.
The company was founded on today’s date, back in 2005, by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. On April 23rd Karim uploaded “Me at the Zoo” which is considered to be the first YouTube video.
Twenty years ago, three former PayPal employees activated the domain name "YouTube.com." The first YouTube video followed soon after.
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The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to attract users, so they created YouTube's first video themselves. The clip, titled "Me at the zoo," featured Karim at the ...