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YouTube turns 20 years previous right now
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YouTube turns 20 years previous right now

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YouTube turns 20 years previous right now

On this picture illustration, the YouTube web site is displayed on October 10, 2006, following Google’s $1.65 billion acquisition of the platform.

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Twenty years in the past, three former PayPal staff launched YouTube.com, initially supposed as a relationship web site with the slogan “Tune In, Hook Up.”

The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to draw customers, so that they created YouTube’s first video themselves. The clip, titled “Me at the zoo,” featured Karim on the San Diego Zoo.

“Me at the zoo” is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005.

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In doing so, they constructed a platform the place anybody with an web connection may add and watch movies.

What did individuals do with this newfound energy?

What they’re nonetheless doing right now.

Flooding the web with clips from Saturday Night time Reside—Like Lazy Sunday, one of many early viral movies.

Swiftly eliminated at NBC’s request however later restored on Youtube, the video highlighted a key pressure in YouTube’s rise.

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Swiftly eliminated at NBC’s request however later restored on Youtube, the video highlighted a key pressure in YouTube’s rise. For some, it was a chaos of copyright infringement; for others, a breakthrough in short-form video democracy. The next yr, Google purchased YouTube for greater than $1.6 billion.

In October 2006, Karim shared with college students at his alma mater, the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, what all of it meant to him: “If you have a good idea, and you just go out there and you make a video, you can — you can get an audience of millions almost instantly for free,” he mentioned.

Over time, YouTube has confronted controversies—over knowledge assortment, poisonous content material and radicalizing algorithms.

However “Me at the zoo” remains to be there, reminding viewers of a extra harmless time. With 348 million views, it is a far cry from the most-watched video.

When you clicked to hear above, our apologies, expensive readers—we now have “Baby Shark”

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