Youtube was invented in 2005 in a garage in Menlo Park, California by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, three computer scientists. When Google purchased Youtube in 2006, the inventors received $1.65 billion. Youtube allows users to easily watch and upload videos online.
2. Youtube was invented by Steve
Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed
Karim in a garage in Menlo Park.
When it was sold to Google, the
inventors won 1.65 billion dollars
.
This invention founded in
February 2005, was created to
watch and upload videos in the
web. You can put Youtube
videos in blogs and web pages.
3. Steve Chen was born in
Taipei, Taiwan but he is
American, He was born in
August 18th in 1978. He is a
computer scientist. He has got
a wife, Park Ji-hyun and two
sons.
4. Jawed Karim was born in
Merseburg, East Germany
but he is American. He
was born on the 1st of
January in 1979 and he is
a computer scientist.
5. Chad Hurley is the oldest of the
group. He was born in Reading,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A so he is
American. He was born in January
24th in 1977. He is a computer
scientist and has got two children.