The History of YouTube By i was never given a name Jan 1, 2005 the three creators of YouTube (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim) shot a video but there was no easy way to share it online Feb 14, 2005 started developing YouTube in Chad Hurley’s garage Apr 23, 2005 first video posted called “Me at the zoo” May 15, 2005 registered the domain name www. youtube.com Jun 1, 2005 remade site and made it more of a community by adding social networking features Jan 1, 2006 25 million videos are watched per day Mar 1, 2006 Total number of videos uploaded reached 25 million (20,000 new videos per day) Apr 1, 2006 bandwidth cost reached $1 million per month Jul 16, 2006 viewers were watching 100 million videos per day Oct 9, 2006 Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion Nov 1, 2006 named the best invention of the year by Time magazine Mar 13, 2007 Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion for copyright infringement Jun 23, 2010 Viacom loses in court against YouTube
