The world's largest video site has romantic roots, says co-founder Steve Chen. Guess what day the YouTube domain name was registered? Long before Tinder made swiping a thing for matchmaking apps, there was a little-known video site trying to play cupid to the Internet generation: YouTube.

YouTube was meant to be a video-dating website

That's not exactly what comes to mind when you think of the world's largest video site, which welcomes a link visitors a month. The idea was for single people to make videos introducing themselves and saying what they were looking for, said Chen. After five days no one had uploaded a single video, so he and the other co-founders, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, reconsidered.

They knew they had something with the underlying technology that made it easy for people to speaking, husvjjal onlyfans can videos to the Internet. The matchmaking element, though short-lived, was perhaps always in the cards.

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Chen said the founders registered the domain name YouTube on February 14, more than a decade ago. Clearly, the pivot paid off. The service has also expanded to include a subscription site, YouTube Red, and a dedicated gaming site.

The service is a live-video site dedicated to food, where chefs can broadcast themselves cooking a meal or foodies can stream the scene in front of a taco truck. The app launched last week.

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