When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of users. In 2016, Chen told the SXSW conference: "We thought dating would be the obvious choice.
This week's announcement of AI-powered Veo 2 integration for Shorts reflects an extraordinary evolution in how we create and consume digital content.