Welcome to YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing site that lets users upload and view all sorts of video clips online. The site is a repository for literally millions of movie clips, TV clips (both current and classic), music videos, and home videos. The most popular YouTube videos quickly become “viral,” getting passed around from email to email and linked to from other sites and blogs on the Web. If a YouTube video is particularly interesting, you’ll see it pop up virtually everywhere, from TV’s The Daily Show to the front page of your favorite website.
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YouTube was founded in early 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The site had its official launch in December 2005 and was acquired by Google in October 2006.
All of those videos ...
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