7 Things to Know about YouTube's 7 Glorious Years


2. What made people come back again and again?

In 2006, Time magazine wrote: "YouTube is to video browsing what a Wal-Mart Supercenter is to shopping: everything is there, and all you have to do is walk in the door." Couldn’t beat that, because the multiplicity of videos on YouTube is such that, there is barely anything that seems to be left out. Not just that you can upload videos on YouTube, you can like, dislike, share and even download them. The lucid interface and attractive arrangement of the webpage has made YouTube as good as any social networking site, where videos are people’s language. Isn’t it a jaw dropping fact that almost all the movies and TV shows in the world are merely a sub-set of the humungous database of YouTube?