feb 14, 2005 - youtube.com domain activated

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On February 14, 2005, the youtube.com domain was activated. Developed by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Youtube is a video-sharing platform where users can upload, watch, and comment on videos. The first video uploaded was titled, "Me at the zoo," by Jawed Karim under the username "jawed." It was acquired by Google in November 2006. Over 1 billion hours of youtube videos are watched everyday, as of February 2017, and is the world's second most popular website as of August 2018. This marks a new era of video entertainment, one where anyone can do anything. Many people upload videos for a living, using Google's adSense to make money.

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