Contemporary · North America · Technology

2005

YouTube is born

February 14, 2005

Three former PayPal employees registered a domain to share home videos. The first upload, eighteen seconds at the San Diego Zoo, was titled "Me at the zoo." Within a year Google bought the company for $1.65 billion in stock and the entire history of moving images began migrating onto everyone's phone.

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In context

Also in 2005 (7 other events on record)

Hurricane Katrina drowns New Orleans · North America · Disaster
John Paul II dies · Europe · Religion
Kashmir earthquake · South Asia · Disaster
London 7/7 bombings · Europe · War
Beirut bomb kills Hariri · Middle East · Politics
Benedict XVI elected · Europe · Religion

Before and after in North America

Before: February 4, 2004: Facebook founded in a dorm
After: March 21, 2006: Twitter takes flight

Before and after in Technology

Before: February 4, 2004: Facebook founded in a dorm
After: March 21, 2006: Twitter takes flight

Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: YouTube