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the three creators of YouTube (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim) shot a video but there was no easy way to share it online
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started developing YouTube in Chad Hurley’s garage
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first video posted called “Me at the zoo”
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registered the domain name www. youtube.com
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remade site and made it more of a community by adding social networking features
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25 million videos are watched per day
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Total number of videos uploaded reached 25 million (20,000 new videos per day)
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bandwidth cost reached $1 million per month
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viewers were watching 100 million videos per day
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Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion
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named the best invention of the year by Time magazine
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Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion for copyright infringement
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Viacom loses in court against YouTube
