7 Things to Know about YouTube's 7 Glorious Years


Bangalore: It is quiet unbelievable how a single click on a YouTube video could turn into hours of video browsing. One of the benchmarks in the history of internet, YouTube has changed the way and rate at which we watch videos in its seven years of existence, with more videos in its server than US television has produced in 60 years.

YouTube has naturally become the voice of the generation as videos of significant events to every single personal incident are uploaded within minutes. What could be a better way to express your ideas or feelings than actually showing it to the world, and YouTube is its living vindication.

Here are some facts and facets of YouTube that represent its seven splendid years.

1. Birth of YouTube

An article by Article Alley states that Jawed Karim, Co-founder of YouTube, never intended YouTube to be a video sharing site; instead he wanted it to be an online dating site like HotorNot. When ex-PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim uploaded their first video “Me in the Zoo” on YouTube on April 23, 2005 they just wanted to overcome the difficulties faced in sharing some party videos online. No matter what the original idea was, YouTube gained commercial popularity after Nike’s Ronaldinho commercial and was getting more than fifty million hits a day at the end of its first financial year.