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The incredible story of how YouTube got its start and rose to become the world's most popular place to watch videos by Nathan McAlone on Oct 2, 2015, 10:48 AM  YouTube is the undisputed king of online video.
It has over a billion users, which is almost a third of the entire internet population. These users watch hundreds of millions of hours of content every single day. But many people don't know how YouTube got its start. The company rose like a rocket ship after its founding in 2005, and was bought by Google scarcely a year later. Under Google, YouTube went from being a repository of amateur video to a powerhouse of original content, not to mention a launching pad for its own new brand of superstar, like PewDiePie. Here is how YouTube got its explosive start, and maintained that momentum to become the biggest force in online video. SEE ALSO: Here's how Uber got its start and grew to become the most valuable startup in the world February 2005: Chad Hurley registers the trademark, logo, and domain of YouTube on Valentine's Day. Former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim had come up with the idea after two significant events in 2004: Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, and the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean.  Source.
April 2005: The first video posted to the site, "Me at the Zoo," was only 19 seconds long. The video is exactly how it sounds: founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego zoo standing in front of the elephants and talking about their trunks. 
May 2005: YouTube launches its first public beta site. As you can see, the design has changed quite a bit. 
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