Saturday, April 25

From Victor Borge to Jon Stewart: Ars staffers pick their YouTube favorites

Video: Ars Staffers create video testimonials about their favorite YouTube clips. (video link)

It's hard to believe that not very long ago, we lived in a world without YouTube.

Prior to April 23, 2005, when the first video ever was uploaded to YouTube, passing around videos was pretty difficult. I was in college then, and we simply passed videos around by USB stick or found them on P2P networks. The formats were never straightforward, and sometimes you had to download plugins or other weird apps to get the videos to play.

As of 2015, YouTube says it has more than 1 billion users, and 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

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