- Former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. The first video uploaded was titled "Me at the zoo" and shows YouTube founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. - YouTube quickly grew popular, with 13 hours of new videos uploaded every minute by 2007. The site consumed as much bandwidth as the entire internet in 2000. - The user uploading the document has been a YouTube member since 2006 and has uploaded around 7,000 videos. They feel YouTube is great for finding specific interests and subscriber channels instead of relying on programmer recommendations.