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| Video Discription | #facts This Video is About : Surprising Facts of YouTube 1. YouTube Was Originally Designed To Be A Dating App Isn’t it an eye-catching fact? That YouTube was initially designed for “Dating“… Most of us thought YouTube is used to watch videos. Right..? But the main idea of launching YouTube was to let people find their perfect match. The Co-founders launched YouTube and asked people to share their videos stating their likes, dislikes, interests, etc so that they could find that one person from the viewers as their match. However, the co-founders (Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen) found that their idea of making YouTube a dating app was not working. People were shy about uploading their videos because it seemed a bit creepy. So later, the co-founders dropped the idea of continuing YouTube as a dating app and allowed people to upload their videos randomly. This was a turning point for them as it gained more interest from people. It was the time when one of the co-founders, Jawed Karim, uploaded a video of him in 2005, which was “Mee at the Zoo.” It was officially the first video uploaded to YouTube. From here the site took a massive fly and became the biggest video-sharing platform in the world. 2. PayPal Indirectly Funds YouTube Actually, there was no direct link between PayPal and YouTube. But, the founders of YouTube were employees at PayPal. Who would have thought that some employees could build such a great platform? Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen saved their extra incomes (bonus), instead of using that money on vacations, they invested that amount in the business. 3. YouTube Began On Valentine’s Day The website was launched on 14th February 2005. But the first video was uploaded over two months later on Saturday, April 23rd, 2005. It was the co-founder Jawed Karim who uploaded the video. 4. Google Owns YouTube Yes! you heard that right. Earlier, YouTube was a separate entity, but, just after 18 months, in 2006, Google bought it at a whopping price of $1.65 billion. The value demonstrates the impact YouTube has had on its users. The fun fact about YouTube is that it was a fortune for the founders, who went from being employees at PayPal and saving their bonuses for the website to becoming multi-millionaires in just a few years. 5. YouTube Plays Pranks On Its Users I feel pity for the users who got pranked by YouTube. This started in 2008 when YouTube first pranked its users by redirecting them to Rick Astley’s music video “Never Gonna Give You Up” every time they click on any link. This was known as the “Rickrolling Prank.” In 2009, YouTube pranked its users by turning the page upside down whenever any user clicked on any video and called it a ‘new page layout’. The last one is the funniest, Once YouTube collaborated with a newspaper satire company called “The Onion” and claimed that a video-sharing website contest was launched. They said that the winner of the contest would be revealed shortly. Fun fact is that: Two websites took it seriously and went live for almost 12 hours. Funny, but true. 6. YouTube vs Utube.com When YouTube was launched in 2005, there was already an existing domain named “UTube.com.” Be it a misfortune, this created a misunderstanding for Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment as they got overwhelmed by the people who tried to spell its name phonetically. They sued YouTube for this misunderstanding but later the claims were dismissed. And Utube.com was later renamed to Utubeonline.com. Information Credit: @Google ,Incrementors |
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