"In the warp-speed evolution of the digital era, it's hard to remember 2005. Facebook was still just a tool for U.S. college students; Friendster and MySpace were the hot social-media sites; Twitter was in utero; now-behemoth Huffington Post was in its infancy. But it was also the same year YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the first-ever YouTube clip ... In the mere seven years since ... the development of the depth, range and sheer volume of available "raw" videos on YouTube has been nothing short of breathtaking -- matched only by our apparent appetite for them." (Quoted from article)