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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
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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 Youtube • developers 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 Youtube • Can be used to show any video on the internet • 100 percent free to view any videos • Bands and other musicians can put their music on youtube • People can advertise on youtube • Videos and songs can be downloaded or converted to mp3
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