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YouTube's 3 original founders first got together in 2005 and together, they launched the basic website in February of 2005 (when the domain name was registered). The beta version of YouTube was released sometime during the May of 2005. After the launch, YouTube has since been constantly developing and improving its website.
The first video to be uploaded to YouTube is titles "Me at the zoo". It features Jawed Karim, a cofounder of YouTube.
Youtube was first launched in February 2005, based in San Bruno, California. It was started by three former PayPal employees. The rights to Youtube now belong to Google, who bought it for US$1.65 billion.
February 14th 2005
YouTube was started 14 February 2005.