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Spare a thought for YouTube, the video sharing site turns ten today




YouTube

The site that singlehandedly revolutionized video sharing on the web has today existed for a decade.

The first ever video to be uploaded, ‘Me at the zoo’, was uploaded on 23 April 2005. That particular piece of web history has been viewed over 19 million times.

In ‘Me at the zoo’, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim is featured at San Diego Zoo, talking about the lives of elephants.

Google bought the video sharing site for $1.65bn just 19 months after the first upload.

Today, YouTube has more than a billion users, and it is estimated that 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

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