Mar 14, 2016 · Long before Tinder made swiping a thing for matchmaking apps, there was a little-known video site trying to play cupid to the Internet generation: YouTube. That's not exactly …

Feb 14, 2023 · YouTube started out as a dating site. On Valentine's Day 2005 -- 18 years ago this month -- cofounder Chad Hurley registered the logo, trademark and domain name for …

Feb 14, 2025 · While the founders have previously shared other reasons behind starting YouTube, such as not being able to find clips of the infamous Justin Timberlake and Janet …

Apr 23, 2015 · A decade ago today, Jawed Karim uploaded “Me at the zoo” to his brand new dating website, www.youtube.com. Yes, his dating website. Karim’s iconic trip to the zoo—the …

Feb 14, 2025 · Turns out, YouTube wasn’t originally intended to be the world’s favorite destination for viral videos. When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, …

Dec 26, 2020 · YouTube was meant to be a dating site when launched in 2005. It failed. A year later, the platform was receiving 25 million views and seeing 20,000 uploads every day.

From its humble beginnings as an online dating site called Tune In Hook Up to becoming one of the most influential platforms on the internet—YouTube has come a long way. Its founders’ …

Feb 25, 2023 · Instead of the varied video uploading space that YouTube has become, its founders envisioned a unique video-enabled internet dating site for its future.

In this video, I show how YouTube used to look in 2005, and reveal that YouTube was a dating site before it became what it is today. Why was YouTube a dating site? What is the first...

Feb 21, 2025 · 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 …