Youtube

- Youtube was first started in 2005 by Chad hurley, steve chen, and

jawed Karim.

- The project was funded its first 11.5 million dollars by Sequoia

Capitol.

- Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in the 2004 Super Bowl incident, when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site.

- Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not.