Just YouTube it. Somehow 21st-century life without ... To generate interest, we just said it was a new kind of dating site. We even had a slogan for it: 'Tune in, Hook up'." No one did.

That's right, YouTube was first intended to be an online dating site. YouTube in April 2005 as saved by the Internet Archive Credit: Internet Archive In fact, you can go check it out and confirm ...

When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, they made it a dating site. That explains why they registered the youtube.com domain name on Feb. 14 exactly 20 years ago.

Evelyn Polacek Kery works for the Guardian and is a judge at the Press Awards 2025. When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube ...

The clip, titled “Me at the zoo”, was the first video uploaded onto YouTube 20 years ago, opening the door to a new medium. From those modest beginnings, the site opened the gates for users ...

"Once you find the person you kind of know," New Jersey resident Mike Braswell said about his now-fiancee Khe, whom he met on YouTube dating show, "Pop The Balloon." Love is a game, and these ...

When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of ...