YouTube was founded on this day
Video sharing website YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, on February 14, 2005. However, the first video on the website was uploaded on April 23, which was an 18-second clip of Karim at a zoo. Headquartered in California, United States, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion in October 2006.