Did You Know That Youtube Was Originally A Dating Site?

As a matter of fact, I did.

Long before it became the largest video site on the Internet and was bought for $ 1.6 billion in 2006, YouTube almost became a social networking site. That's right: instead of watching videos of kittens and viruses, you would go to the site to see videos of people looking for a relationship - like a Tinder from the past decade. Steve Chen, co-founder of the site, told the secret. "We always thought that there should be something with video there, but what would be the practical applicability of that? We think that 'relationships' would be the most obvious choice," he explained. The initial project was for single people to make videos introducing themselves and saying what profile they were looking for - and, on second thought, some people are not far from that idea. After five days, no one had uploaded a video, so Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, decided to think it over.