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In its 15-year history, YouTube has become the undisputed king of online video.
It has over 2 billion monthly users who watch hundreds of hundreds of millions of hours of content every single day. But many people don't know how YouTube got its start.
The company rose like a rocket ship after its founding in 2005, and was bought by Google 18 months later. Under Google, YouTube went from being a repository of amateur video to a powerhouse of original content, not to mention a launching pad for its own new brand of superstar, like PewDiePie and the Smosh Brothers.
Here is how YouTube got its explosive start, and maintained that momentum to become the biggest force in online video.
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Karim has maintained the cofounders drew their inspiration from two significant events in 2004: Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, and the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean. However, Chen and Hurley say they thought of the idea of YouTube as a place to upload videos they had taken at a party. Chen recently told Business Insider that this story was later concocted with the help of an outside PR firm, to replace YouTube's sordid dating origins.
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Nathan McAlone contributed to an earlier version of this report.
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