Seeing as we are all in a 400 level communications class, I can safely assume we know at least basic English rules. An old classic I will definately never forget is the one where you can never define a word by using the original word in the definition. With this mindset, I found it rather humerous that when I set out on my adventure of discovering when and where YouTube was concieved, I went right to the source. To my suprise, when I YouTubed YouTube's history, I only found one link.
YouTube.com gained rapid popularity almost right away. It was initially created by 3 former employees of PayPal.com, Chad Hurley (a design major), Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim (computer science majors), according to Wikipedia.
As found on YouTube's official website, on February 15, 2005, Hurley, Chen and Karim registered the domain name YouTube.com. They saw their idea as a way for people to easily broadcast videos throughout the internet. The first official video (one of the creators, Karim, at the zoo) was posted on April 23, 2005, and in May an official public bandwith was launched attracting an average of 30,000 viewers per day. By November YouTube had over 200,000 registered users viewing about 2 million videos per day. Although YouTube was already gaining popularity they did not make their official web debut until Deceber 15, 2005.
Currently, YouTube.com is the 4th most visited website online, behind Yahoo!, Microstoft Network (MSN), and Google. As of April 9, 2008, YouTube allows access to about 83.4 million videos and has 3.75 registered user channels (Wikipedia).
There is so much to learn about YouTube, I didn't even know where to begin. After some deliberation, I decided that from the beginning was the smartest idea...
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