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YOUTUBE
Chad Hurley was the one who came up with name “YouTube.” He also drew the logo.
THE COMPANY BEGINS
With so many different available codecs, a website like YouTube wouldn’t
be possible without some sort of standard video code. Before YouTube,
users who wanted to translate a video from one format to another would
need a special program and a lot of knowledge to do so.
Today, every single video that is uploaded to YouTube is automati-
cally translated into a format that Adobe Flash Player can read. Chad
explains, “Someone could upload any video format and we could re-
encode that in Flash.” Anyone who has Adobe Flash Player installed can
view any video on the website. With that problem solved, the founders
of YouTube could move on to building the website.