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Youtube

Me at the Zoo - 2005

The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27 P.M. on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo.

The video was uploaded by Jawed Karim (born January 1, 1979), a German internet entrepreneur of German and Bangladeshi descent and a the co-founder of the video-sharing website YouTube. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

Jawed Karim's Personal Website

http://photos.jawed.com

Y Ventures is an early-stage venture investment group founded by Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube.

http://www.yventures.com

The hidden cost of Gangnam Style

THE loony music video “Gangnam Style” surpassed two billion views on YouTube this week, making it the most watched clip of all time. At 4:12 minutes, that equates to more than 140m hours, or more than 16,000 years. What other achievements were forgone in the time spent watching a sideways shuffle and air lasso? It took 50m man-hours to complete the “supercarrier” USS Gerald Ford last year. Had people not been watching PSY—the South Korean pop star who released the song in July 2012—they could have constructed three such ships. Alternatively they could have built more than four Great Pyramids of Giza, or another Wikipedia, or six Burj Khalifas in Dubai (the world’s tallest building). The song’s nearest rival is Justin Bieber’s “Baby”, at a paltry one billion views. The opportunity cost of watching PSY’s frivolity is huge, but humanity has at least been entertained.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/06/daily-chart-1?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/gangnamstyle