7 interesting facts about YouTube service

The modern Internet is impossible to imagine without the video service YouTube. In his boundless catalog you can find answers to any questions, music videos, feature films, passing games, video tutorials, and much more. Today we will share a few facts from the history of creation and development of YouTube, which seemed to us curious.

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YouTube now seen as an integral part to Google. However, I began to exist in this service as an independent project or as it is now fashionable to say, a startup. It was organized by three employees of the famous payment system PayPal. Chad Hurley (Chad Hurley) was the lead designer, and Steve Chen (Steve Chen) and Javid Karim (Jawed Karim) - programmers. The three ventured to quit his well-paid job and promising to do their own project.

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YouTube originally conceived as a dating site, where users could be used to represent not only your photos, but also small videos. Later developers is on this function and decided to focus on. An additional impetus to reincarnation in the video hosting service served as a case where Chad and Steve could not share video with his party because of the postal services of restrictions on the size of attachments.

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The first video uploaded Javid Karim April 23, 2005. Its duration was only 19 seconds, during which Javid just mumbles something near the cell with an elephant. The first to comment this video (and in general on YouTube) has become a user with the nickname COBALTGRUVWho has written a profound «Interesting ...». That's what started the industry of online video, which now competes with television and cinema.

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In the first month of the new service was attended by about 3 million users. Six months later, this number has increased 10 times and amounted to about 30 million people. By the end of the first year, the site has already honored by the presence of 38 million. And in October 2006, for a total of one and a half years after its launch, Google has acquired YouTube for $ 1.65 billion.

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The longest videoEver uploaded on YouTube, lasts 596 hours, 31 minutes and 21 seconds. It has been downloaded 14 December 2011 by the user under the nickname MoldytoasterMedia. This video, by the way, has more than two million views, but hardly anyone ever looked through it to the end. The channel of the user, there are other works in the "large genre."

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Five of the most viewed videos of YouTube for today is as follows. First place still holds the Korean rapper Psy, but, given the dynamics of growth, we can soon expect a change of leader.

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According to published data in 2015, every minute on YouTube, uploading 100 hours of video. If someone decided to see all the currently available videos, then he would need to do 1700 years. Currently, the service audience exceeding one billion people. This is almost one-third of all Internet users.

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