Which video-sharing website was founded in February 2005?

Which video-sharing website was founded in February 2005? The answer is YouTube.

YouTube was founded in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The founders created a simple website for uploading and sharing video at a time when posting video online was still technically awkward and often required specialized software or hosting.

The site’s first video, “Me at the zoo,” was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005. YouTube opened to the public later in 2005 and quickly gained attention because users could embed clips on other websites, making videos easy to circulate beyond YouTube itself.

People sometimes confuse YouTube’s founding date with its public launch or Google acquisition. The company was founded in February, its first video appeared in April, and Google agreed to acquire it in October 2006 for approximately $1.65 billion in stock. Twitch, Dailymotion, and Vimeo were founded later or developed separately.