YouTube turned 8 years old

Yes, the service that almost every one of us uses every day has just turned 8 years old. And it seems that he always existed, right? On April 23, 2005, the first video was uploaded. The developers of the service did not know then that in the future YouTube would become so popular, and that they would be able to sell their development to the “Corporation of Good” for a very decent amount.

But some statistics from the official page . The achievements of the service for 8 years are really impressive.
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• More than a billion unique users visit YouTube every month.
• YouTube users watch more than 4 billion hours of video each month.
• 72 hours of video is added to YouTube every minute.
• 70% of YouTube traffic is provided by users outside the United States.
• YouTube is localized in 53 countries in 61 languages.
• In 2011, YouTube videos scored more than 1 trillion views, that is, almost 140 per each inhabitant of the Earth.
• Every day, our users make millions of subscriptions. This feature allows you to establish contact with those who are interested in you - whether it be your friends or your favorite sports team - and monitor their activity on the site.

And more statistics:

• The content identification system scans about 100 years of video each day.
• More than 3000 of our partners use the content identification system. Among them are all the largest US television networks, film studios and record labels.
• Our content identification database contains more than eight million digital prints (over 500,000 hours of materials). This is one of the largest databases in the world. Last year, the number of digital prints doubled.
• More than a third of all commercial YouTube video views are related to content identification.
• More than 200 million videos have been recognized by the content identification system.

The first video uploaded to YouTube was seen by many of Habr's users. But remember how it all happened, it would not hurt, right? Here is the very video, which, probably, can even be called “historical”. True, the video itself does not represent anything so outstanding.



This is not "Charlie bit my finger" and not "Sneezing Panda", right? These two videos are one of the most popular for the entire existence of YouTube video hosting.