<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; "><h2 class="news-item-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.25em; "><br></h2></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; "><div id="journal-promo-news-item" class="innovations-in-entertainment" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: url(http://static.arstechnica.com/mt-static/plugins/ArsTheme/style/themes/light/images/promotional-zone-news-item-bg.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; color: white; font-size: 0.8125em; height: 21px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 20px; width: 960px; background-position: 0% 0%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><b><br></b></span></div><div id="promotional-zone" class="news-item-promo" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 20px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); width: 960px; background-position: initial initial; "><div id="news-item-info" style="float: left; width: 640px; "><h2 class="news-item-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.25em; font-size: 16px; ">Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube</h2><p class="news-item-teaser" style="margin-top: 1.3125em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3125em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 13px; ">Remember when video on the Internet was painful? There were low bandwidth caps; QuickTime, RealPlayer, and Windows Media were the formats of choice; and finding good video was a challenge. Then YouTube came along in early 2005 and changed all that.</p><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; ">By <a href="http://arstechnica.com/author/anders-bylund-1/" style="color: rgb(255, 91, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Anders Bylund</a> | Last updated <abbr class="timeago datetime" title="2009-12-07T5:30:52Z" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">December 6, 2009 11:30 PM</abbr></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; ">You might feel like access to online video clips is one of those "inalienable rights" you hear so much about. The Internet of 2009 is awash in video content, from your favorite <em>Seinfeld </em>episodes to homemade videos of cats playing the piano—and everything in between. And you can get the material you're looking for from a plethora of sources. And I really do mean <em>plethora</em> in the most literal of senses, where it translates into <em>surfeit</em>, <em>excess</em>, and<em>overabundance</em>. If you want to share a clip with the world, you can go to YouTube or MySpace TV, DailyMotion or Metacafe, Vimeo or Truveo—and the list goes on and on. Video hosting is now a very mature field with lots of consumer choice and its own set of conventions and traditions.</span></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; ">< clip ></span></font></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/guides/2009/12/how-youtube-changed-everything.ars/1">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/guides/2009/12/how-youtube-changed-everything.ars/1</a> </span> </span></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 18px; "><br></span></font></div><div class="news-item-byline" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 18px; ">for the full story</span></font></div></div></div></span></div>
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