You’ve most likely heard of viral videos such as Gangnam Style, or famous people such as PewDiePie and Smosh. If you have, then you most likely heard of YouTube. YouTube was created by three people, one of them Steve Chen. Steve Chen is a very significant figure whose technological creations are used internationally. He helped innovate technology by creating numerous advances in technology.
Steven Shih Chen was born on August, 18th, 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan. As a child, Steve always found computer science intriguing. He took computer science as a major at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. In 2002, Steve graduated and started working at PayPal. At his time, the internet was beginning its rise in popularity. People were rushing at the opportunity to innovate the internet. New tools such as Yahoo!, a search engine, an e-mail system, and a news system, or PayPal, an online money-transferring tool, were created. In fact, it was at PayPal where Steve Chen became friends with the other two founders of YouTube,
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Steve Chen and Chad Hurley experienced the same problem at a dinner party. Because video files were too big to e-mail, the process of sharing videos was very tedious. It was at that dinner party that YouTube was born. Now that YouTube was created, it is much easier to share videos with one another. YouTube, to some, is also a place of freedom, since you could express your opinions freely just by uploading a single video. YouTube, actually, has many uses. YouTube can be used to capture memories, for entertainment, and even a job opportunity. Did you know that YouTube was originally a dating website based off of Hot or Not, but quickly failed? Also, YouTube wouldn’t have had the funds to be created if eBay hadn’t bought PayPal, the company the three founders were currently working in? Steve helped created a massively popular online tool that hundreds of thousands of people use to this