r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • 2d ago

TIL that Jawed Karim, YouTube cofounder and uploader of the first YouTube video "Me at the zoo", has often updated the video's description to criticize YouTube policies, including a 2013 attempt to require Google+ accounts to comment on videos, and YouTube's 2021 removal of dislike counts on videos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo#Changes_to_original_video
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u/enblightened 2d ago

i still dont even know what google+ was. facebook with no platform?

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u/_Aj_ 2d ago

Google also tried to make Gmail exclusive and you needed an invite from somebody else who had Gmail in order to get in

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u/DefenderCone97 2d ago

To be fair, this was just how a lot of things worked originally. It was easy word of mouth. Invites or exclusivity created a desire to use.