The Importance Of Internet On The Internet

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Internet users’ population around the world boosts in number as internet services become more accessible. Statistics shows that in 2014, internet users reached 2.8 billion. (Manalang, 2015) Internet access builds website’s availability. Introduced by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who once worked for PayPal, June 2005 YouTube started with “a little public fanfare.” YouTube wants to eliminate the limit of extensive online sharing of videos. YouTube offers users the power to upload, publish and access online videos without any complex technical knowledge. YouTube marked its success, October 2006 after Google purchased the site for $1.65 billion. Rise of YouTube continues and was considered top among entertainment sites in Britain. In early 2008, YouTube secured its place as one of the top 10 most visited sites worldwide. (Burgess, 2009) Maintaining their place, 2014 statistics confirms YouTube being ranked top 3 on top 10 sites on the web and placed top 5 on top sites in the Philippines. (Manalang, 2015) ”As told by Jawed Karim, the third co-founder who left the business to return college in November 2005, the success of the site is due to the implementation of four key features-video recommendations via the ‘related videos list, an email link to enable video sharing, comments (and other networking functionality), and an embeddable video player.”(Burgess, 2009, p.2) YouTube’s vision, the limitless sharing of videos worldwide became problematic nowadays. Video