So in 2004 a group of Software guys were having hard time finding footage online of the infamous “Wardrobe Malfunction” at the Superbowl. They then decided they should create a site that made it easy to upload video. They called the site YouTube.
So Janet Jackson’s nipple indirectly led to millions and millions of cat videos and all was right with the World.
According to Wikipedia"
“Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen’s apartment in San Francisco.”
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since YouTube was created.
where they were watching the Superbowl with nipples.
It’s possible it’s apocryphal but this link supports the story.
Reminds me of the Golden Girls episode where Blanche was relating one of her ‘losing my virginity’ stories…
Who knew they could both make music and create websites.
Huh. Thought the OP would have been called out in the first reply, I’m surprised to find that this story is at least possible. I’d have said I knew for sure that YouTube predated Nipplegate by three or four years at least. I still think of Janet’s nipple as something fairly recent.
Edit: I shouldn’t have said “Janet’s nipple”, I should have said “Miss Jackson” because I’m nasty.
her nipple has been around a long time.
I can’t believe it’s* only* been 10 years.
Yeah, it seems longer.
Hard to believe its been ten years since the whole outrage over her stupid, weird looking, Borg assimilated, chocolate titty! 
Stephen Colbert put it into perspective by referring to it as “the events of 2/1”.
Chocolate titty? You have something against the mammary glands of Nubian sisters?
That was my reaction. I feel like I remember watching replays of that on YouTube, but I guess that’s just a faulty memory. Feel like there’s a lesson from an episode of Law and Order here…
I was shocked - SHOCKED - to learn that YouTube was founded only a month after President Bush’s 2nd inaugural and six months before Hurricane Katrina…
I remember being one of the few people actually watching the halftime show during our Superbowl party, hence being the only one who saw The Nipple on air. This being pre-HD, it wasn’t the best quality image. Being the nerds that we were (are) we immediately set about googling for the image. Not ten minutes after broadcast, we found an image online in hi-res glory.
Of course, being the nerds that we were (are) we were puzzled by the appliance around aforementioned nipple.
And I feel like I was on the Dope when it happened, when I clearly was not. I even remember a discussion.
However, I do clearly remember that all you could find online were static images.
You have something against chocolate?
Not as often as I’d like.
With the impact of YouTube in the 2008 election, I always wondered what would have happened in 2004 had YouTube been invented and popularized just a year or two earlier.