Video sharing site YouTube was created on Valentine’s day five years ago. The founders - Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim – were working for PayPal before starting YouTube.

It’s an interesting story – these people wanted to share videos from a dinner party with friends but their email program won’t accept large video attachments. So they decided to design a simple video sharing site that went on to become one of the most popular sites on the Internet.

Here are some important moments from YouTube’s five year history:

Clip 1. This video clip is from YouTube’s garage days when they were housed in one of Sequoia Capital’s offices.

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Clip 2. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen announcing on YouTube that they’ve been acquired by Google.

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Clip 3. And now the clip you’ve been waiting for. This is the video that was uploaded to YouTube. The clip was uploaded by Jawed Karim, the third-founder of YouTube, who is now an employee of Google.

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