Ten years ago on Valentine’s Day three former PayPal employees created YoutTube, a site to host videos of cute cats, funny kids and infectious celebrity.
TIME magazine awarded the site and its uploaders of video content “Person of the Year” in 2006, the same year the tech-upstart was purchased by Google.
YouTube like other forms of social media have made it easy for your everyday person to create celebrity or journalistic credibility. Justin Bieber, one of the world’s biggest pop-stars first got his start on YouTube.
YouTube mimics the user population of other social media sites like facebook with a population of about 1 billion users.
Below is the very first video uploaded on YouTube, a sort of video version of Edison’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb” or Alexander Graham Bell’s “Watson Come here.”
