9781422277393

Tech 2.0

people’s daily lives, PayPal’s software enabled users to purchase things from online vendors instead of having to write checks or send money orders. Today, many merchants allow customers to pay them directly using a PayPal account. The three young men who would go on to create YouTube— Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim—all met when they worked for PayPal. They were among the first employees after the company launched in 1998. Chen and Karim had met as students at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where they both studied computer science. Hurley majored in fine arts at the Indi- ana University of Pennsylvania, developing skills that would come in handy when he designed the YouTube logo a few years later.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Birthplace of YouTube.

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