How it all started: YouTube
Apr. 23rd, 2025 08:15 pmSo he and his fellow PayPal friends (chad and steve)
It took them a while to think that maybe global video connection could be useful for things other than rating how hot people are.

It would take a while to make a good layout
2005
On April 23rd, 2005, Jawed uploaded the first YouTube video,
where he, in 19 seconds, notes how long elephants trunks are. Fascinating.

YouTube circa July 2005
After a few months, people start uploading their own videos, and thanks to embeds, YouTube got alot of traffic from MySpace, and by the end of the year, YouTube already had over 2 million views per day.

Some unimportant video by two
losers named Anthony and Ian.
Probably not a big deal.
2006
2006 was a big year for YouTube in many ways. The site had tens of millions of videos on the site, with content such as:
- original content
- reuploaded newgrounds movies
- reuploaded videos from other websites
- reuploaded tv clips
- reuploaded movie clips
- straight up just full movies
The site got the attention of millions of people, even Google.
Since Google was the most visited website on the internet, this brought even more people on to YouTube, and the site was basically known by everybody and their dead grandma by 2008.
and the rest is histuhree!!!!!!!!!!!!!