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YouTube is definitely one of the most well-known web 2.0 site around the internet. It has a alexa rank of 3 and google page rank of 9/10. Below are a few things you probably don't know about YouTube.

• YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. One of the founder, Karim was responsible for a few key projects in PayPal and was an early and key hire when the company first started; he received equity in the company too. When PayPal was sold to eBay, Karim received several million dollars at the young age of 23!
• In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in
• Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.
• In August 2006, The Wall Street Journal published an article revealing that YouTube was hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 45 terabytes of storage space), and had about 500,000 user accounts.
• Its bandwidth costs are estimated at approximately $1 million a day.
• YouTube's success unintentionally affected the business of an American company, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., whose original website address, utube.com, was at one time frequently overloaded and shut down by high numbers of visitors unsure about the spelling of YouTube's domain name.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
http://news.upickreviews.com/featured/10-things-about-you-tube/