It’s hard to believe YouTube is only five years old. How ever did we procrastinate without videos of babies break-dancing and chumps wiping out on treadmills? Then again, it’s also remarkable that the video-sharing site has lasted this long: five minutes is a more typical Internet life span. But YouTube — the world’s third most visited website after Google and Facebook — shows no signs of slowing down. The site marked the May anniversary of its 2005 beta launch with another milestone: YouTube’s users now clock more than 2 billion views every single day. (See YouTube’s 50 best videos.)

That kind of reach must have been inconceivable for former PayPal co-workers Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who created YouTube as a Flickr-style sharing site for videos in February 2005. They posted their first clip, a 19-second shot of Karim at the San Diego Zoo, that April. By November, with the aid of neophyte-friendly uploading software, YouTube users were sending 8 terabytes of data flickering across the Internet every day — the equivalent, Hurley noted, of the entire contents of a Blockbuster store. By the time Google paid $1.65 billion in stock for the company in the fall of 2006, the site boasted more than 700 million views a week. Today more video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than all three U.S. television networks have created in 60 years.

Backlash was inevitable, of course, and YouTube has been slammed for encouraging everything from narcissism to piracy. It has also reportedly lost money every year so far. But maybe not for long: already its signature amateur content is giving way to professional fare that’s more attractive to advertisers. (In April, the slick video for Lady Gaga‘s hit single “Bad Romance” became YouTube’s most popular video ever.) Which means YouTube might be a very different company by the time it celebrates birthday No. 10.

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Questions
  1. Who were the founders of Youtube?
  2. How much did Google paid for Youtube?
  3. What is the 3 world’s most visited website?
  4. Currently about how many Youtubes’ videos are view on a single day?
  5. How many terabytes were sent across the internet per day in November 2005?
  6. What is YouTube’s most viewed video of all time?

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5 Responses to “Youtube Turns Five”

  1. daltono-mr nicol says:
    June 15, 2010 at 11:03 am

    i lioke it very much it was somthing i liked becuse i injo going to it and losting to musci

  2. calista o.- Mr.Nicol says:
    June 15, 2010 at 11:08 am

    I learned that you tube has two billion views every single day and that you tubes hit single is lady gaga bad romance. When youtube paid $1.65 billion in stock and now you tube has 7 million views a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. daltono-mr nicol says:
    June 15, 2010 at 11:10 am

    i leaened the song laddy gaga badromance was the most veuod song on youtube

  4. kayleighd~mrs.gould says:
    June 16, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    what i leared from the you tube lesson was that it turned five years old.

  5. Skylar L-Mrs.Gould says:
    June 16, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    What I learned from youtube turns 5 is the owners and the #1 music video.

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