Now That You've Seen the Wonderful Video

             Well now that you have all been properly educated through the power of video it is time to edumacate you via text.

       YouTube was created by a group of brilliant fellows who had previously worked at PayPal. Who were these most fantastic of people you ask? Well my sources have informed me they go by the names of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It is stated that in frustration over the difficulty of uploading videos to the web that they sought to make something easier and able to be utilized by the general public at large.

       The first video ever be loaded to site was called "Me at the Zoo", a quick clip of Karim at the San Diego Zoo in front of some elephants. They apparently have really long trunks. I'll just put the link right here. This was about April 23, 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

Aren't I nice!

         The site had started up with a nice little investment from a nice ol' company of the name Sequoia Capitol, one of the premiere venture firms in Silicon Valley. Sequoia at first invested about $3.5 million but latter added another $8 million. That was when a rather talented entertainer by the name of Judson Laipply released this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Man I give so much to you guys!

           Now this video went viral fast and stayed at the top of YouTube's charts for most viewed for a while. This was released on April 6, 2006 and got spread around quickly. Suddenly everyone has seen this one video and viral videos from there only grow stronger.

        So now that you know about who was behind the creative genius that was this most wondrous of inventions on the interwebs, it is time for us to look upon what this meant to people.