Basic Research on Topic 6.
6. Identify a figure who is generally known to have played a major role on the internet. Evaluate if his/her contributions are justified or mythologized. In topic 6, I did research about the founder/inventor of Youtube, which is Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Before I start, I will write a little bit introduction about 3 of them. First, Steve Chen, Chen is the Chief Technology Officer at Youtube. He was born in Taiwan and immgrated to United States when he was 15. After he graduated from University of Illinois, he started worked in PayPal, and that is where he met his co-inventors and co-founder Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Next, Chad Hurley, the former CEO and co-founder of YouTube. Hurley was majoring Fine Art in Degree at University of Pennylvania. After he graduated, he worked in PayPal and met Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Based on Mary Bellis, Hurley “considered a whiz at user interface design.” (Bellis, M, 2016) Hurley also designed Paypal’s tr