YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday on April 23rd. The video upload site is now one of the biggest websites on the Internet. The first video ever uploaded on it was a 19-second film taken at San Diego zoo. YouTube was founded by three men from their office above a California restaurant. They sold their company to Google eighteen months later for $1.65 billion. Today, there is over 1,700 years of video on the site. More than one billion videos are streamed every day. It is sure to get bigger and more popular.
YouTube is one of the Internet’s biggest successes. Everyone knows and uses it. The website is now a part of our life. We all like to search for music or sport videos, or clips from our favourite comedy shows. Many people e-mail the web address of funny YouTube clips to their friends. Not everything about YouTube is good though. There are many videos on it that are illegal. People upload stuff that tells lies about others or stuff that teaches you how to do criminal things. YouTube is also useful for learning English.
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