It’s been lauded for promoting democracy and reenergising education, while being disparaged for its endless cat videos and nasty user comments. This high-and-low ethos is baked into YouTube’s culture.
According to Jawed Karim, he and two of his PayPal colleagues, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, launched the site after becoming frustrated that they couldn’t find footage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and, er, Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl the same year. The online video behemoth has become the world’s third most-visited website, after Google and Facebook. And Blockbuster… Well, kids, Blockbuster was a video rental shop offering films on DVD and VHS. Today, 300 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute. And we never have to forget.In late 2005, when YouTube was just a few months old, one of its co-founders announced that the site’s users were consuming the equivalent of an entire Blockbuster store each month. Nothing is perfect, but we have to get through and power on. But all I can do is move on, and know that she loves me and I love her flaws and all, and that is enough. I kept telling myself, our relationship will get better when X, or I will try harder later. Maybe things that were always lingering with a thought of "we can fix that later." Maybe that is why Simon took this particular loss so hard. Also seems like their was some sort of strain on their relationship, maybe things that could have been different. I know Simon wrote this for a friend that died, and it makes perfect sense. I could sense her saying to me, "you will be okay, life will go on" through this song. I was looking for a song to use for her picture slideshow and this was perfect. I always thought I "got" what it was saying, but it never made more sense as when my Mom passed away. Song MeaningThis has always been my favorite Duran Duran song, and my Mom's as well. I guess we all live and learn, it was really hard to hear these lyrics at that time. Ours truly was just a little sorrow, but man did it hurt. Well, I moved on, found my place in the world, got married, and lived happily ever after, she did as well. I had to find my "Ordinary World" so to speak. I knew I screwed up, I knew I would never see her again, and I knew that some how I had to learn from this huge mistake, move on, and be a better person after learning this lesson. I lost the person I love and my best friend as well, because I did something so amazingly wrong. It was the first time I really listened to the words. I remember being in a hotel room, waiting for my new apartment to be ready, and this video came on. it forever became the anthem of this screwed up time in my life in upstate new york. This song was just coming out at the time, and I saw the video. MemoryThis song brings back a very sad time in my life.ģ days before I was supposed to get married, it all blew up.
I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue