As YouTube turns 20 years old in 2025, here are the 10 most important moments that have defined the social media platform.

It gave rise to a culture where unknown voices could find an audience. It was wild. It was unpredictable. It was exhilarating.

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As YouTube completes 20 years in 2025, here are the 10 most important moments that define the social media platform.

The video-streaming service entered the scene in 2005 with these simple words from co-founder Jawed Karim: “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys ...

Jawed Karim, YouTube’s co-founder, uploaded the platform’s first video but stayed behind the scenes, quietly shaping its ...

When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain 20 years ago, they ...

It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – with a 19-second video of Karim exploring San Diego Zoo. That year ...

In an interview, founder Jawed Karim said he couldn’t find Janet Jackson’s nipplegate video in 2004. So, he and his buddies, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, started coding a site where people ...

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 dating site based around videos of ...