The first movie on "Youtube" 10 years old

April 23, 2005 to YouTube has been uploaded video Me at the zoo, presented above. The protagonist - Jawed Karim, who podglupovato talks about elephants being in a zoo. He particularly notes their "long trunks." Video shot Jacob Lapitsky, classmate Karim, and at that time he had almost no idea what will be used captured. Karim - one of the co-founders of "Yutuba", which was directly involved in its development. But his destiny as the company formed a kind.





"Yutuba" was not been without payment system PayPal. The three founders of the site - Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim (left to right) - were former employees' PeyPela "has joined the company at the time of growth.

The idea of ​​the site was born at a time when it was possible to implement it: there is a need bandwidth and user demand. December 26, 2004 off the coast of Indonesia's tsunami, and in January breasts Janet Jackson обнажилась half a second during the Super Bowl. Karim found that the web to find videos of these events was almost impossible. Today, co-founders differ in the assessment of each other in the early days of the development site. But at least one thing they agree: the work on "YouTube" began February 14, 2005. That day was registered the domain name of the site that was chosen long before this.

The creation of "Yutuba" Karim inspired HotOrNot, dating site where people were asked to evaluate on a scale of strangers. It was one of the first sites to which you can upload your own content and make other people view it, recalls Karim. Up to this point it was clear that content makes the site owner, rather than a visitor. By the way, HotOrNot inspired another famous boom - it was Mark Zuckerberg, who made Facemash, a clone with photos of students at Harvard University.

Channel for the first version of the site costs about 129 dollars a month. There were very few visitors, and the site was very primitive. You could not even choose what to watch - "YouTube" lost videos in random order, and since they were little, constantly repeats occurred. It was then unloaded 18-second spot "Me at the Zoo».

Even the founders did not know what would be the "YouTube". It was believed that this dating site. Karim stuffed rolls resource takeoffs and landings passenger airliners to on it was at least something. In general, he showed enough activity in the development of the company. To attract even someone yutubovtsy offered $ 20 on Craigslist every girl who unload your videos there. There was no response is received. Another idea was an attempt to create a website for rassharki video among friends and relatives, Chen recalls. But it happened totally different: the site has become a platform for rassharki videos from across the web.

The story of the protagonist of the first video "Yutuba" ends. Karim left the company and went to graduate school at Stanford. This decision was reasonable - then the "YouTube" had a very uncertain future. Ironically Karim never received his doctorate. By late summer, Sequoia Capital has invested in the site of the first 500 thousand dollars. Some time on the site employs 10 people, all doing it from home. Later they moved to a large office Sequoia in Menlo Park, then to the office in San Mateo. In the latter ran a rat, and afford partition walls company could not, so the staff treated curtains.

"YouTube" grew and developed. In 2006, the site was bought by Google for giant 1, 65 billion, of which $ 64 million went to Karim. Today the "YouTube" is one of the biggest traffic generators in the global network, it continually discharged hundreds of hours of videos. But ten years ago, laying out a shared weird 18-second preview of the zoo with his participation, Jawed Karim could not imagine what it destined to become a product.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/249450/