The history of YouTube.com

YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. It's a free online video streaming service that allows users to view and share videos that have been uploaded by YouTube's members.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Prior to PayPal, Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005, and the website was developed over the following months. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, and six months later, YouTube made its official debut.

All about Youtube can be found in this book. Including the history of YouTube.

Why YouTube? Because that's one of the very first site allowing people to easily upload their videos and its community is big, and that's what we mainly use here on 12FreeMusic.com

Of course there is now Google Video and plenty others, but YouTube deserves a special treatment..

So here are the pages related to YouTube...