Happy 10th Anniversary, YouTube!
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQX...ature=youtu.be
