YouTube purported to be a different sort of dating space. Instead of imagining what a person was like, you could watch a video of them talking about themselves and their interests.

YouTube: From failed dating site to pop culture juggernaut. Story by Brenda Haas, Deutsche Welle • 2mo "Me at the zoo" was the first video uploaded on YouTube 20 years ago today.

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.

Twenty years ago, YouTube was born. Here are its little-known earlier beginnings. Credit: Newscast/Universal Images Group via Getty Images It's February 14, 2025. You know what that means? Yes ...

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 ...

However, YouTube-as-a-dating-site attracted little interest, forcing the cofounder to take out ads paying women $20 to upload dating videos. Instead, users started uploading videos of all kinds to ...

He’s just one of the 5,000 singletons aged 27 to 42 who are opting out of traditional dating methods and submitting applications to be contestants on the viral YouTube series hosted by Arizona ...