TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 History Lights Camera Action 4 CHAPTER 2 Geography Hard to Control 10 CHAPTER 3 Civics Keeping Current Getting Involved 16 CHAPTER 4 Economics Vloggers and Ads 22 THINK ABOUT IT 30 FOR MORE INFORMATION 31 GLOSSARY 32 INDEX 32
CHAPTER 1 History Lights Camera Action Want to make a pizza but don’t know how Need pointers on how to land that kickflip on your skateboard Hope to learn Spanish by the end of the summer Desperate for help on that algebra problem you’re stuck on All this information is right at our fingertips It’s available on videos that others have created and posted to a web hosting service Video sharing as it’s termed is the fastest growing activity on the internet Millions of videos are uploaded to the internet every day in staggering numbers from those shot in someone’s backyard with a phone to professional-quality footage filmed with high-tech cameras 4 21st century skills library
Jawed Karim not pictured Chad Hurley and Steven Chen used to work at PayPal when it was still a start-up A Trip to the Zoo Jawed Karim Chad Hurley and Steven Chen had come up with a new idea Over dinner one night in December of 2004 the three friends talked about starting a new website featuring videos on a large variety of topics Video we felt really wasn’t being addressed on the Internet stated Hurley People were collecting video clips on their cell phones but there was no easy way to share That was the night the idea for YouTube was born But it wasn’t until Jawed Karim went to the San Diego Zoo in April 2005 and uploaded a 19-second video about elephants trunks that the internet was officially revolutionized 5 VIDEO SHARING
