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Monday, February 14, 2005

On Valentine's Day 2005, three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — registered the youtube.com domain. The first video, 'Me at the zoo,' was uploaded by Karim two months later.

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Why this date?

  • The first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo,' is 18 seconds long and is still online.
  • Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in October 2006 — less than two years after launch.
  • More than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute today.
  • YouTube is the second most-visited website in the world, after Google itself.

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