Youtube was launched on a Valentine’s Day!
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The second-most viewed website in the world, YouTube was launched on a 14 February day in 2005.
- It was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
- The first video “Me at the Zoo” was uploaded on 23 April 2005. This video was uploaded by Jawed Karim.
- Google acquired (bought) YouTube in 2006.
What are some fun facts about Youtube?
- It was originally designed to be a dating site.
- It is estimated that one would take 57,000 years to watch each and every video on YouTube (only if, that’s all that you do).
- There are 98 different versions of Youtube.
- People all over the world watch over 1 billion hours of videos a day on this platform. This is more than Netflix and Facebook videos combined.
- The most-watched video on it currently is the children’s song Baby Shark.
Check out the first video “Met a the Zoo” by the creator. Credit for the upload goes to Youtube user->”jawed”
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