YouTube.

YouTube had became a video-sharing website that almost everyone who can access internet would use, but at first, YouTube was supposed to be a dating website which allowed single people upload video of themselves and talk about what partner they were into. Steve Chen, talking at the South by Southwest in Austin to dispatch his news sustenance video site Nom, said it was imagined on Valentine's day - yet after five days, had not pulled in a single user.

First registered was on Valentine’s Day in 2005, Chad Hurley had registered the trademark, logo and domian of YouTube. Steve Chen, and his co-founders Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley decided to open it up to a wide range of clasps. Based on DailyMail, Chen said “Just three guys on Valentine’s Day that had nothing to do.” After 3 months which is May in the same year, 3 of them and small group of the early employees launched the testing YouTube website.

In November of 2005, YouTube had officially converted into a corporation. The first office was located in San Mateo, California, above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant. As the employees were getting more and more, the place was started to become very packed until they had no choice but move.

In 2006 October, YouTube had at least 65 employees, and YouTube had bought by Google for 1.6 billion in stock. On the day the procurement was proclaimed, YouTube had moved to San Bruno, California, a former GAP office.

Now, YouTube had become a worldwide video-sharing website. Everyday, people watch countless hours of substance and create billions of views. Development in watch time is up 60 per penny year-on-year, which is the speediest the company has found in two years.

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