More recently, the annual event VidCon, where the developers of YouTube traditionally talk about the latest achievements and plans for the future. It was announced that today more than 1.5 billion people use the service monthly. YouTube was launched in 2005 by three former PayPal employees, and a year later it was acquired by Google for 1.65 billion dollars. The author of the YouTube channel 4096 decided to show how the most popular video hosting service has changed since its inception to the present day.

Initially, YouTube resembled a search service, like Google, but it could only search for videos. Over time, YouTube has changed dramatically, and the amount of unnecessary information on the site has been reduced to a minimum. Several times the service was radically transformed. Also, the video clearly demonstrates how the evolution of videohosting changed and the content presented in it. If at first it was mostly amateur videos, then there were clips, shows and t.