feb 14, 2005 - Creation of YouTube

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1. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded the online video-sharing platform YouTube.

2. It enabled users to effortlessly share video content with others and with the wider community.

3. The million views milestone for a video was a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho. Gangnam Style passed a billion views in 2012.

4. It was originally supposed to be a dating app, but that was too difficult and was ditched.

5. The first video posted was by Jawed Karim, and it was called 'Mee at the Zoo'.

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