YouTube.com was basically founded by Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and it was created for the friends to share video clips of a dinner party, which were too large to email. Continue reading to know the details and see the infographic: Jawed Karim posted the very first YouTube video on April 23rd, 2005. Entitled “Me at Zoo”, it features Karim and some elephants and its 18 seconds long and it has been viewed 3.24 million times. The YouTube domain birthday is Valentine’s Day, 2005.
The guys made a killing from their little idea, the next Internet rich boys will be the Facebook founders when they take the company public. Though they need to hurry before FB looses it luster and a new technology or site takes over.
