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Youtube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. All were former employees for paypal.
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Youtube was purchased by Google in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars in stock
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In June of 2007, Youtube introduced ttheirr mobile site. This meant that users could now use their phones to go on Youtube.
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In May of 2010, Youtube was exceeding over 2 billlion views per day.
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In december of 2012, the song Gangnam Style became the first video on Youtube to reach 1 billion views. As of September 3, the video has over 1.75 billion views.