The technology that I researched was YouTube and its history. YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The original idea that they had for YouTube was to make it an online dating website but with videos rather than the typical dating site. Clearly YouTube has greatly evolved from that into a platform with multiple uses like music, home videos, and so much more. They originally came up with the idea to create YouTube because they were having a difficult time sharing videos with others. By creating YouTube this made it very easy for others to share videos with each other and with the public.
One thing that this invention did was it allowed for others to connect with people across the country and across the world and share their video they made. It also allowed for people to share their music with each other and the public which would allow them to gain publicity and possibly receive opportunities that they may have not received before. This also became a television platform recently when they came out with YouTube TV. This allows for people to watch TV including sports games while still on YouTube. Although this does require them to pay a monthly subscription bill they are still getting all the benefits of having TV but without having to pay for cable.
Some problems that the creation of YouTube was able to solve is that it made it easier to share videos with others and made it easier for people to get access to music and many other forms of entertainment. Another problem that it solved is that now some people use that as their job and way of making income by posting videos for others to watch and get sponsorships from it. One way this invention changed communication is that it allowed for others to share videos easier with each other rather than having to find another way to do so. Along with that this platform made it so that if you wanted to you could have family from anywhere in the world with videos you post.
One negative effect that the creation of YouTube brought is that it gave multiple people the opportunity to violate copyright rules. People could post video and music that have been copyrighted although only the people who have the rights to the video or music could do something about it. This caused many things to be illegally posted and gave YouTube the problem of trying to find a solution to fix this mess. Now before uploading anything on to YouTube you are shown a disclaimer about the copyright rules and what would happen if you violate them. Another negative effect that the creation of YouTube may have caused is people are sharing too much information on the internet. One example of this could be is someone could share information about the United States that we may not want for a government in another country to hear.
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