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Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Prospect Heights, Illinois.
He went to River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect for his middle school education.
He went to John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights for his freshman year of high school. For his final three years of high school, he attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. However he did not graduate from IMSA. He later studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated In 2002.
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he studied computer science. He graduated in 2002.
Karim said the inspiration for YouTube first came from Janet Jackson's role in 2004 Super Bowl incident, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site. Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. They created posts on Craigslist asking attractive females to upload videos of themselves to YouTube in exchange for a $100 reward. Difficulty in finding enough dating videos led to a change of plans, with the site's founders deciding to accept uploads of any type of video.
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