The Story Behind Youtube

You must know the youtube phenomenon of The Tapiheru siblings, Gamal and Audrey, right? Through youtube, with the channel gamal1990, they sahre thir recording as cover for some cool and updated song.

the Tapiheru's

And there's more of youtube phenomenon you may aware of

1. Justin Bieber

the phenomenal

He has become the singing sensation since the late 2008. Before the fame, his mother used to record him while he sing on a competition or other event, and he posted it to youtube. Small actes, but large impacts! And now he is on of the top money makers below 21.

2. Zee Avi

zee avi

In September 2007 Avi posted a video of her first song on YouTube for one of her friends who had missed her first performance in Kuala Lumpur. The friend convinced Avi to leave the video online even after he had seen it, and soon she received positive feedback. This inspired her to put more videos on YouTube. So that se become famous nowadays.

3. Charice

charice with her guitar

With her incredible voice and her guitar playing, she sing songs and posted it on youtube. Because of that, a lot of people aware of her talent and invited her to do some live performances. Charice once invited to Oprah Winfrey Show and they talked about how lucky and talented Charice is so that she can pull out a duet with Celine Dion. Amazing right!?

with celine dion 8-)

Because of her fame. She also casted for the famous musical Series, Glee.

Glee newest star!

That's some of the widely Youtube's phenomenon.

Now, let's head back to the main story....

THE STORY BEHIND YOUTUBE

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.

Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, while Hurley commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible."

YouTube began as a venture-funded technology startup, primarily from a US$11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006.YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent month.

The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.

me at the zoo

 

With joy,