


The domain name was registered on Valentine’s Day in 2005, and the name was all goofed up as “ Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment” the domain of which was. YouTube was supposed to be a dating website, but destiny had other plans. They used the bonuses during the eBay buyout of PayPal.

It is also said that the infamous wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson (Super Bowl XXXVIII) set the launching point of YouTube as Jawed Karim was not able to find its footage.Īs mentioned above, the three founders of YouTube were PayPal employees. The idea came to its founders at a dinner party at Steve Chen’s place in San Francisco when, due to some email attachment error, they were unable to share the videos of the party. They created it in 2005 when they were all employees at PayPal. YouTube is the mastermind of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
