Do you know that YouTube is originally started as video dating service.....
Yes, it is true that YouTube is actually first started as video dating service originally called "Tuned in Hook up" . The website is heavily influenced by the website " Hot or Not ". Although it operated in the same fashion, the three founders decided not to go with the dating site idea but decided to keep the video portion.
Then two important event occur which forever changed the site YouTube as we know. First when "Jawed Karim" unable to find some video online and second when "Chad Hurley" and "Steve Chen" were unable to share a video from dinner party with friends due to email attachment limitation that still exist today. These two events made the founders realised that there was a huge limitations for sharing video online and they decided to fill that need. At last YouTube was founded as result.
The first video uploaded to YouTube is short by "Yakov Lapitsky" at the San Diego Zoo. It shows co-founder "Jawed Karim " in front of the elephant enclosure going on about long trunk. It has 33,568,887 views till now.
No comments:
Post a Comment