Everyone nowadays has heard of YouTube. Want to search for a tutorial? You go to YouTube. Want to watch and listen to some music? the answer is the same: YouTube.
But I guess you didn’t know about these facts:
1. YouTube started as a Dating Site 🙂
Crazy, right? It’s true! They have started YouTube as a Dating site back in 2005, you can check this by yourself using the Wayback Machine.
2. You can create YouTube Playlists
This is one of the powerful feature of YouTube. You can create as many YouTube Playlists as you want with your favorite videos, TV show, news videos and so on.
3. First Video was uploaded in 2005
The first ever YouTube Video was uploaded on april 23rd, 2005 by Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube.
4. You can download YouTube videos to watch them offline
There are moments when you want to download some nice videos either music video clips, news, tutorials, cartoons, documentaries and/or even (old) good movies.
Why? Because you want your favorite collection of videos with you when you are offline: on the beach on a remote island 😉 or when flying.
Now how to do that? Simple just download this Free Tool.
5. Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube
6. YouTube has over a billion users and rising each day.
7. YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal
8. Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars just 18 months after YouTube’s creation
9. 60% of YouTube’s 1000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany