History of Youtube founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed

Karim in February 2005 in San Bruno, California idea of YouTube came at the difficulties

experienced in trying to share videos taken during a party San Francisco

Karim's original idea was to create a dating site where people could be classified based on their videos

February 15, 2005, and 23 April was the first video uploaded

History of Youtubedevelopers quickly realized that users were

carrying all sorts of videos, leaving behind the original idea

By December 2005 YouTube pages were visited 50 million times a day

By June 2008 38% of videos viewed in Internet came from YouTube, the closest competitor came to represent only 4%

Functionality of YoutubeCan be used to show any video on the

internet100 percent free to view any videosBands and other musicians can put their

music on youtubePeople can advertise on youtubeVideos and songs can be downloaded or

converted to mp3

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