New York: A super economical car and a soldier-saving robot may be just what the world needs but the honour of being Time magazine’s Invention of the Year has gone to YouTube - the creation that has turned home movies into real hits on the web.
Time's editors write that YouTube had been picked for the honour for it had changed the “rules” of the web and because it has created a new way in which users the world over use the Internet.
"Only YouTube created a new way for millions of people to entertain, educate, shock and rock one another on a scale we've never seen before," the New York Daily News quoted them, as saying.
YouTube is the brainchild of Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, who became millionaires when they sold their invention for $1.65 billion to search engine Google.
The three inventors, the magazine states, opened up a “portal into another dimension” with their creation.
"They had no idea. They had opened a portal into another dimension," the editors wrote.
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