
YouTube created in February 2005 by three former PayPal emplyees ( Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim,) is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. During all those years YouTube has grown like no other sites on the INTERNET (before facebook and twitter) It totally revolutionized the multimedia in the Internet. The original story behind creation of YouTube was that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco Though of an on line video sharing site.
YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005, six months before the official launch in November 2005. The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day,and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. In 2009 YouTube was dominating provider of online video content in US with market share of over 43%.
It is also estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. In March 2008, YouTube's bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately US$1 million a day. Alexa ranks YouTube as the third most visited website on the Internet, behind Google, Facebook.
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In 2006 Google acuired YouTube for US$1.65 Billion. And has the mayority of shares till now.
YouTube revolutionized the internet media sharing. You can watch trailers, funny pictures. YouTube video are used in TV news magazines. There was A YouTube orchestra first concert published online. YouTube is still evolving now putting HTML5 (flash free support) and HD resolution to their content. YouTube TV's access. This list keeps growing every few months.
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