Here's a timeline that may or may not make you angry:

January 2005: YouTube housed in a Menlo Park garage.

May 2005: YouTube site "up-and-running."

December 2005: Official launch.

August 2006: Co-founder Chad Hurley tells Charlie Rose he sees YouTube "building the next generation platform to serve media worldwide."

October 2006: Google buys YouTube for $1.65
billion.

It's hard to imagine a media story bigger in 2006 than YouTube's $1.65 billion sale to Google. In fact, most of the media's biggest stories in 2006 have YouTube to thank: Stephen Colbert's takedown of President Bush at the White House Correspondent's dinner, Bill Clinton's finger-wag on Fox News — and who could forget the "macaca" moment — all were streamed and beamed by YouTube, and promptly caught fire.

mediabistro.com's 2006 Year-End Media Awards