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Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:43 am**

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

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:08 pm**

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..?

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:09 pm**

Invention of the Year huh? Too bad it started but showing illegal videos on the web...lol

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:29 pm**

I say we get a hug shirt and ship it to our friend in OZ! Anyone with me?

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:39 am**

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

Posted: **Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:30 pm**

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

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Time magazine names YouTube 'Invention of the Year'