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On Febuary 14th, 2005, Youtube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim
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The first ever Youtube video was created showing co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
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Youtube launches Beta Test for the puplic
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Youtubes first ever one million hit video released
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Sequoia Capital invests 11.5 Million into Youtube
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Youtube's Website was officially released
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ten-minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films.
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Youtube announces that they are getting 65,000 videos uploaded a day.
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Google announces it aquired Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars.
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Youtube has 800 million unique users.
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In June 2007, YouTube added an option to watch videos in 3GP format on mobile phones.
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In January 2010, YouTube launched an experimental version of the site that used the built-in multimedia capabilities of web browsers supporting the HTML5 standardThis allowed videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed
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In May 2010, it was reported that YouTube was serving more than two billion videos a day, which it described as "nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major US television networks combined".
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Youtube gets declared the top video provider with more than 14 billion views in the month of may, 2010.
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In May 2011, YouTube reported in its company blog that the site was receiving more than three billion views per day.
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Youtube announces that every minute 100 hours of video are being uploaded
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Youtbe announces it has 300 hours of video be uploaded evry minute.
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In February 2015, YouTube announced the launch of a new app specifically for use by children visiting the site, called YouTube Kids.
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On August 10, 2015, Google announced that it was creating a new company, Alphabet