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« on: April 23, 2013, 11:15:14 AM »
Only 8 Years old today (seems like forever) and here's the number one video in those 8 years.  What's your favourite?
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2013, 11:35:55 AM »
Wow, 8 years already.

google purchased YouTube for $1.6 billion barely a year after launch, but then spent 4 or 5 years wondering how to monetize it. Quite a lump of money if you have no idea how to turn it into a useful investment, but jeez they spotted it's potential early.

They have an interesting Wiki page, here.....

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

A few snippets caught my eye.....



The site has eight hundred million unique users a month. It is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. Alexa ranks YouTube as the third most visited website on the Internet, behind Google and Facebook.


"Charlie Bit My Finger", which was uploaded on May 22, 2007, is a viral video that has received the most views of any user-generated YouTube video, with over 500 million views.


The most viewed video on YouTube is the music video of the song Gangnam Style by PSY. It was added to the site on July 15, 2012, and became the first YouTube video to receive over 1 billion views on December 21, 2012



All in all, quite a comment on human nature.

I visit it most nights for half an hour or so, just to view & listen to a few music tracks. I'd never pay to use it though.

Think there are probably several hundred interviews or clips by or about me on the Site, all of which have mercifully sunk without trace to the very bottom of oblivion & beyond.  
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2013, 01:10:02 PM »
Started because someone was looking for Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' and couldn't find it. Seem to recall hearing that on Only Connect anyway. Happy to be told that was something else!
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2013, 01:51:34 PM »
Quote from: Tal on April 23, 2013, 01:10:02 PM
Started because someone was looking for Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' and couldn't find it. Seem to recall hearing that on Only Connect anyway. Happy to be told that was something else!

Be happy. It was something else.
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2013, 01:54:42 PM »
Someone's gonna have to explain to me what's funny, unique or even cute about the Charlie bit my finger video? I don't get it
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2013, 02:25:12 PM »
Quote from: Dubai on April 23, 2013, 01:54:42 PM
Someone's gonna have to explain to me what's funny, unique or even cute about the Charlie bit my finger video? I don't get it

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I've never got it, thankfully.
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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2013, 02:36:50 PM »
Quote from: Dubai on April 23, 2013, 01:54:42 PM
Someone's gonna have to explain to me what's funny, unique or even cute about the Charlie bit my finger video? I don't get it

I don't get it either but almost everywhere I have travelled in the world outside of the UK they mention it to me and ask if I have seen and then insist on playing it and repeating it over and over again to much hilarity.  I always assumed it was something to do with his accent along with the mildly amusing scenario......
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2013, 02:15:08 AM »
Quote from: Dubai on April 23, 2013, 01:54:42 PM
Someone's gonna have to explain to me what's funny, unique or even cute about the Charlie bit my finger video? I don't get it

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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2013, 07:56:32 AM »
I think it's a female thing. Several women have told me how amazing it is or sent the clip but I've never heard any men mention it, other than to say that they don't see what the fuss is about.
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« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2013, 09:12:44 AM »
   Well then....get posting some FUNNY videos ffs!!!   
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« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2013, 01:03:40 PM »
Not a funny vid or even a good song just good memories for people of my age.
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« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2013, 01:08:20 PM »
Quote from: tikay on April 23, 2013, 01:51:34 PM
Quote from: Tal on April 23, 2013, 01:10:02 PM
Started because someone was looking for Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' and couldn't find it. Seem to recall hearing that on Only Connect anyway. Happy to be told that was something else!

Be happy. It was something else.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm

Been driving me mad, this!

Karim recalled the difficulty involved in finding and watching videos online of Jackson accidentally baring her breast during the Super Bowl show.
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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2013, 01:37:47 PM »
Quote from: Tal on April 24, 2013, 01:08:20 PM
Quote from: tikay on April 23, 2013, 01:51:34 PM
Quote from: Tal on April 23, 2013, 01:10:02 PM
Started because someone was looking for Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' and couldn't find it. Seem to recall hearing that on Only Connect anyway. Happy to be told that was something else!

Be happy. It was something else.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm

Been driving me mad, this!

Karim recalled the difficulty involved in finding and watching videos online of Jackson accidentally baring her breast during the Super Bowl show.

Whereas Wiki claims......



According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, while Chen commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible
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« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2013, 01:46:05 PM »
I'm content with the knowledge that this wasn't a symptom of my madness.
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« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2013, 02:23:14 PM »
Quote from: bobAlike on April 24, 2013, 01:03:40 PM
Not a funny vid or even a good song just good memories for people of my age.



See that a few times. Absolutely love it!
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