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most of us probably remember the days when watching videos online meant squinting at grainy pixelated clips in a tiny RealPlayer window assuming our connection was fast enough to support streaming video at all but in 2005 a few guys that used to work for PayPal came up with the idea for YouTube after they noticed how difficult it was to do something as simple as share a popular video of a big news story or wardrobe malfunction and although YouTube wasn't the first site that was dedicated to sharing videos those actually started popping up in the mid to late 1990s thanks to their timing they were among the first to take advantage of the increasing popularity of broadband connections fast enough to even watch videos easily as well as miniature cameras on things like cell phones that allowed people to take videos anywhere creating a large market for both watching and uploading videos online YouTube also converted all videos into Adobe Flash to ensure that as many people as possible could use the site since virtually every web browser at the time supported the Flash plugin though today they're migrating towards the less resource heavy html5 youtubes good launch timing made it wildly popular so much so that Google bought the site less than two and a half years later for over a billion and a half dollars good thing too since as at the end of 2014 300 hours of footage are being uploaded to YouTube per minute fortunately though you two bags access to Google's hundreds of thousands of servers to handle all those terabytes upon terabytes of bad infomercials reaction videos and professional unboxings of course Google wouldn't have shelled out all dat paper if they didn't think that YouTube had the potential to be a huge moneymaker so YouTube rolled out its partner program in 2007 allowing youtubers like yours truly to share in the site's ad revenue by placing banner ads and later pre-roll ads on their videos and the gravy train didn't stop there as YouTube also formed partnerships with major content distributors like NBC Universal in 2006 vevo in 2009 to gain even more ad revenue by featuring highly sought after videos like music videos and also to ward off the copyright lawsuits that plagued the company in its very early days 2009 was a big year for YouTube that was the beginning of support for 1080p full-hd video and in 2011 just two years later to contribute to the trend of cord-cutting in which people were finding ways to watch high quality content without paying for an expensive cable or satellite subscription they poured a hundred million dollars into the funding of startup original content from existing creators and from other celebrities YouTube also tweaked its search algorithm in 2012 placing more emphasis on watch time instead of raw view count which not only helped to bury irrelevant videos with view counts inflated by BOTS or people watching them for a few seconds because of an attractive thumbnail that turned out to have nothing to do with the actual content but also allow the trending content to get to the top of search results more easily making the site more of a distribution platform for new videos rather than just a huge dusty repository for 10 year old home movies of people's cats since then the site has continued encouraging its users to cut the cord so to speak even further by live streaming popular events and launching YouTube read a monthly subscription service although cheaper than a cable subscription that will offer ad free playback access to more original content although that depends on the creator's to make it and music streaming with playback in the background and while it's relatively high cost of ten dollars a month has been roundly criticized it's reflective of Google's push to get people away from their TVs unless of course those TVs are connected to a chromecast beautiful powerful simple websites which you can build for yourself over at squarespace.com they've got 24/7 support via live chat and 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