You Tube 5th Birthday!

YouTube, that household name for broadband videos, has recently reached its fifth birthday. That’s right – it has only been a mere five years since the birth of YouTube and no doubt you’re wondering what you used to do, to while away the hours before it.

To celebrate its birthday, YouTube has just announced a major new milestone: it’s streaming a whopping two billion views per day.
To help commemorate the occasion, YouTube is also launching a new channel of videos called “My YouTube Story”, which includes a collection of clips featuring people around the world talking about how YouTube has changed their lives. The initial batch of clips were filmed by documentary filmmaker Stephen Higgins, and some of them are quite touching. YouTube users can upload their own video stories as well; YouTube will be plotting these videos on a global map, and will also offer an interactive timeline of clips.

For the entire history of YouTube and its evolution over the past five years, check out the YouTube channel.