November 6, 2006 6:13 PM PST
YouTube bashers often argue that the video-sharing site offers little more than a place for people to watch other people behave as fools.
Fans say that YouTube, a service that allows anyone to post videos on to the Web, is a new form of communication. On Monday, Time magazine sided with the latter group by naming YouTube "Invention of the Year."
San Bruno, Calif.-based YouTube beat out such innovations as Gardasil, a vaccine that fights off a sexually transmitted disease and the Hug Shirt, which simulates the feeling of being embraced by a loved one.
"YouTube had tapped into something that appears on no business plan," writes Time's Lev Grossman, "the lonely, pressurized, pent-up video subconscious of America. Having started with a single video of a trip to the zoo in April of last year, YouTube now airs 100 million videos and its users add 70,000 more every day."
Posted by Greg Sandoval
Source: news.com
Time magazine names YouTube 'Invention of the Year'
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Well, they did have that Juggernaut video, and I learned how to do the Chicken Noodle Soup...
Who the fuck would wear a hug shirt..?
Who the fuck would wear a hug shirt..?
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Invention of the Year huh? Too bad it started but showing illegal videos on the web...lol
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"
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The question is: does he really need it more than Fapper does..?
Ah, the Time magazine - another edition, another list, another load of crap.. lol
Ah, the Time magazine - another edition, another list, another load of crap.. lol
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QUOTE(iMNO @ Nov 7 2006, 06:29 PM) I say we get a hug shirt and ship it to our friend in OZ! Anyone with me?
lmao Sounds like a good idea.
Interesting that this was chosen as invention of the year... but I guess the competition wasn't that great... lol
lmao Sounds like a good idea.
Interesting that this was chosen as invention of the year... but I guess the competition wasn't that great... lol
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