The world's largest video site has romantic roots, says co-founder Steve Chen. Guess what day the YouTube domain name was registered? Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on ...

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.

YouTube was supposed to be a dating site, if you can imagine Co-founder Steve Chen said that’s how the service started. Jaya Saxena. Updated on May 27 2021 2:09 am CDT ...

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.

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen told an audience at SXSW that Google's video platform started out as a dating service for singles to share video profiles. ... YouTube began life as a dating site.

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 ...

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 ...

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