Youtube turns 10-years-old.

It all started 10 years ago, when YouTube’s co-founder Jawed Karim posted the first video called “Me At The Zoo”. The video is an 18-second clip of Jawed at the zoo describing the elephants “really really really long, um, tucks”.

While there isn’t too much more to the video, it’s pretty much how the video-sharing website got started. Back in 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 Billion. There’s really no way to tell the magnitude of YouTube, but it does attract more than one billion unique visitors a month. When it first started, it was meant to store content, however, it didn’t take long for users to take it to the next level. YouTube gives you the power to share your experience with the world. YouTube has become more then just a day at the zoo; YouTube is a place where you can learn just about anything from cooking to how to build your own computer. YouTube is, if not the only one, of the most influential websites to change the Internet forever.

10 years dominating the Internet is impressive, but YouTube faces more competition now then ever. Rivals like Facebook and new ventures like Vessel are getting recognized for there video sharing also. 300 hours of video is posted every day on the site, I don’t see it going any where for a while.

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Source: Cnet

Here’s the first video on YouTube.