History

2 YouTube pages in History.

• History of YouTubeYouTube was founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim; its first video, "Me at the zoo", went up on Apr 23, 2005, and Google bought it for $1.65 billion in stock in November 2006. This timeline runs from those beginnings through the Partner Program, Shorts and the 20th anniversary in 2025.
• Retired YouTube FeaturesYouTube has removed many features over the years, including annotations (gone Jan 15, 2019), private messages (2018 and 2019), poll cards (2020), community captions (2020), old unlisted links (made private Jul 23, 2021), public dislike counts (2021) and Stories (Jun 26, 2023). This page dates each one and says what replaced it.

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