Feb. 15 What! YouTube?

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On February 15 we find something from the past and recognize something in the present. Yes, YouTube is in the news on this day in history.

From The Distant Past

On this date in 1934, Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the programming language Pascal, is born in Winterhur, Switzerland. From 1975 to 1999, Wirth was a professor of computer science at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Of course professors like to challenge themselves and their students, so he created Pascal as a tool for teaching programming.

However, Pascal crept into the halls of business and became the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the Mac in its early years.

Into The Near Present

On this day in 2005, the Domain Name “YouTube.com” was purchased, activated and went public. YouTube was created by 3 former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Its platform was headquartered in San Bruno, California.

By May 2005, the beta version of YouTube was up on the net. Within a month, the very first video was posted. It was titled, "Me at the Zoo," and was a 19-second long clip posted by Karim himself. The video featured footage of Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo, talking about elephants and their trunks.

YouTube looked very promising as a service, so Google approached the creators and made a bid. On October 9, 2006 it was announced that YouTube would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock. The transaction was completed on November 13. This was Google's second-largest acquisition. Google’s largest acquisition to date is Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2012.

Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about YouTube. “YouTube allows users to upload, view them, rate them with likes and dislikes, share them, add videos to playlists, make comments on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.”

For us Affiliate Marketers, YouTube is a very popular way to connect with a large viewing audience because many people prefer to “watch and listen” rather than “read”.

Day After Valentine’s Day Enjoyment

For those of you who are curious, typing in the phrase “most incredible marriage proposals” on YouTube will reveal some breathtaking proposals. Maybe inspirational!

Enjoy this day in computer history!

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Interesting as always.

We are finding doing this very interesting too

That's for sharing.

You are very welcome.

Ok wealthy affiliate entrepreneurs, I keep hearing all about the history of the making of different social media platforms and how they are great tools for advertising. So I guess this old dinasuer needs to get his butt in gear and start learning about these media inventions. The 70s were fun but its time to get modern.
Thanks for sharing.
Be safe
Mike

Your comment is priceless.
Enjoy the new opportunities.

The advancement that technology has taken is really mind boggling, like the info!

Thanks for enjoying.
I am amazed at what is happening in computer history.

WOW, George! Very fact-filled, my friend! I would love to invent something and then sell it less than a year later for Over a Billion dollars! Heck, I'd take much less for that matter! 2/15 was definitely a banner day in computer history!

Jeff

Yah! Wouldn't it be great to make that much in less than a year. Maybe our dreams are getting bigger with some real possibility!!

If they could do it, anyone can! It takes effort and perseverance is all!

Absolutely!

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