YouTube started as online dating site.

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Anyone ever heard about this? Kinda funny to think about in hindsight.

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.
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YouTube started as an online dating site - CNET
 
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I didn't know until someone at work was talking about it one night. Kind of odd considering what it is now.
 
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joevol33 said:
I didn't know until someone at work was talking about it one night. Kind of odd considering what it is now.
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Joe, I guess everybody else knew about this besides us. They all must be into online dating. :)
 
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joevol33 said:
I didn't know until someone at work was talking about it one night. Kind of odd considering what it is now.
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I dont care for them deleting old shows and movies that get get posted - they police for copyrights to much
 
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joevol33 said:
True!
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Or maybe you're into online dating too, and just told me about how you "heard about it from a friend."

Hmmmm.

Seriously though, I watch a ton of YouTube. I'm not sure about most of you, but I probably spend more time watching YouTube than I do television.
 
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Two things going against it at the time were that online dating was mostly taboo. It wouldn't be for several years later that it started to really pick up. The other thing was unless you had a laptop with a built in webcam you had to buy them separate for your desktop.
 
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