2005 (Youtube)

Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube right on Valentine's Day in 2005. Chen and Karim is a graduate of the Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, while Hurley of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Friendship was more viscous three companions after they work for PayPal, an online payment service site, which was later acquired by eBay in 2002 for U.S. $ 1.5 billion. PayPal logo was the work of Chad Hurley, and all three took part launch the site.

Post-acquisition bonus money into venture capital that the three men when they agreed to set up their own businesses. A situation then encourage them to set up a streaming video-based site earlier. There are two versions of the story that the reason for the establishment of YouTube. First, the difficulty of getting one of those video Janet Jackson incident and Justin Timberlake in the "Super Bowl" on February 1, 2004.

Second, distrust Jawed Karim dinner at the apartment about Steve Chen. To prove that the show was going on, Chen and Chad Hurley are trying to send a video of the event to Jawed. However, they have difficulty in uploading the file earlier, especially in technical contexts. They had to change the video file to a specific format and must be a member to raise. 

They turned it all when setting up YouTube. The user does not need to be a member to post videos. They also did not set a specific technical requirements for the file that will be raised the uploader. Just broadcast yourself! When established, the number of sites with the ease that only a handful of sorts. Because of this, then YouTube is packed with a menu that is easy to learn format, upload that is not complicated, and the speed of the video watch later. 

In May 2005, YouTube introduced a beta version of the site and was officially introduced to the public in November 2005. In a time not too long for the size of a start-up site, YouTube is growing rapidly. As of July 2006, YouTube received 65,000 new video and watched 100 million times every day.