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TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
In one of my classes, we are learning how the Internet has
changed the way we share and receive information. For
instance, instead of going to the library to research a
topic, many people will just hop on the Internet and type
the subject into Google.
One of the websites commonly visited is YouTube.com, a
video sharing community where users can upload and watch
videos for educational and informational purposes, or just
purely for entertainment. The website www.mashable.com, has
some interesting facts about this site. Check them out here!
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Human beings are human beings. They say what they
want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence
while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the
Internet."
HINT: (1953-), American stand-up comedian, political
commentator, actor, sports commentator, and television and
radio personality.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed
Karim in 2005. They already knew each other from working
together on the Internet site PayPal. The funding for the
start up of YouTube came from bonuses received following
the eBay buy-out of PayPal.
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The inspiration for YouTube as we know it today is credited
to two different events. The first was founder Karim's
inability to find footage online of Janet Jackson's
"wardrobe malfunction," and the second when Hurley and Chen
were unable to share video footage of a dinner party due to
e-mail attachment limitations.
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The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Valentine's
Day in 2005. This caused a huge misunderstanding for
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment based in Perrysburg,
Ohio. Its company domain, "utube.com," was overwhelmed with
traffic from people that tried to spell the video site's
name phonetically. The manufacturing company sued YouTube
claiming its business was damaged by the video site, but
the claims were dismissed
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VIDEO CLIP
News Bloopers - Tongue Twisters
Television news is largely a live affair and at times the
reporters and anchors get their tongues all twisted. Here
are some tongue twisters caught in English around the
world.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=8355
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The first video ever to be uploaded on YouTube was shot by
Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. It shows co-founder
Jawed Karim in front of the elephant enclosure going on
about long trunks. It has racked up 4,282,497 views since
its online debut on April 23, 2005.
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As of February 2011, YouTube has 490 million unique users
worldwide per month, who rack up an estimated 92 billion
page views each month. These stats are just for the main
YouTube website -- they don't incorporate embedded videos
or video watched on mobile devices.
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Not counting music videos (which due to licensing
restrictions are often shown only in the U.S. on YouTube),
the most viewed video of all time is the classic "Charlie
bit my finger," with an astounding 282,151,886 (at the
time of writing).
(Facts from www.mashable.com)
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QUOTE: "Human beings are human beings. They say what they
want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence
while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the
Internet."
ANSWER: Dennis Miller.
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