Happy 10th Anniversary, YouTube!

[Natalka]

A decade ago on Thursday YouTube made history when its co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the site's first video.

The video-sharing site, which now boasts over a billion users, has risen to fame from small beginnings after Karim posted a 19-second clip on elephants and their "really, really long trunks."

Karim co-founded YouTube along with former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
A self-professed nerd, the Bangladeshi-German internet entrepreneur was credited with having created PayPal's real-time anti-fraud system during his tenure with the company.
Obsessed with technology and learning, Karim originally dreamed up the concept of a video-sharing site. He became a millionaire after eBay purchased PayPal in 2002, but that was small change compared with the $64m cheque he received when Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for a whopping $1.65bn in stock.


YouTube debuted publicly days after that first upload and has since gone from strength to strength, with users from across the globe posting a reported 300 hours of new video every minute of the day (International Business Times), including music clips, cartoons, exercise manuals and movies.

More history of YT

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/youtube-mar...ersary-1497872

[Natalka]

Psy's Gangnam style became the most viewed video clip of all time with 2.24bn views catapulting the previously unknown South Korean rapper to global stardom.



2. Justin Bieber – ‘Baby’
3. Katy Perry - "Dark Horse"
4. Katy Perry - "Roar"
5. LMFAO – “Party Rock Anthem”
6. Eminem ft Rihanna – “Love the Way You Lie”
7. Shakira – “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”
8. Enrique Iglesias ft Descemer Bueno & Gente De Zone
9. Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull – ‘On the Floor’
10. Psy – “Gentleman”

Can't believe a cat video didn't crack the top 10!

[Britanica]

Time to watch pointless cat videos for 2 hours to celebrate! :D

[dededi]

Happy Anniversary Youtube.