
The word "youtube" was made from two words of English: "you", which means "you" and "tube", which come from a jargon that is much closer to "television". In other words it would be a "television by you." This is the main function of the phenomenon of the Internet: allow users loading, assist and share videos in digital format.
The Youtube was created in February 2005 by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two employees of a technology company based in San Francisco, USA. The site came under drawback was that file sharing of video, as these were very big, difficult what your email.
The site allows users to place their own videos on the network, and viewed by anyone worldwide. The Youtube uses the Macromedia Flash format to reproduce the content, and let users put video on their blogs and personal sites. All the potential of Youtube was recognized by the American magazine Time, which chose the site as the best invention of 2006.
Due to the great success of Youtube, in October 2006, the giant Google announced the purchase of the site for the amount of US $ 1.65 billion, unifying the services of their own site-sharing videos, Google Video, the Youtube. The main rule of the site is the non-sharing of videos protected by copyright, a fact that most of the time is not met.
Another fact that drew the attention of all was a judicial determination on the day 05 January 2007 which ordered the blocking of the site. This determination was caused by the controversial video involving a TV presenter, replacing carícias with her boyfriend on a Spanish beach. That led the blocking of about 5.5 million Brazilian users, which has aroused a wave of protests against the measure. On day 09 January was declared that the site should not be blocked.
It is estimated that each day about twenty thousand new videos are loaded and thirty million are assisted in Youtube.




















