Put the verbs in the gaps into Past Simple or Past Continuous

In 2005, three young men, Chad Hurley, Steve Chan and Jawed Karim, [ ] the company YouTube. The men [ ] while they [ ] for another Internet company. They [ ] their ideas about the Internet when they [ ] that it was not easy to post and share video clips on the Internet. So, the men [ ] to create a website to do exactly that. In February 2005, they [ ] youtube.com and [ ] online. YouTube [ ] instant success as it was user-friendly with a modern design. Every day, while more and more people [ ] videos to the site, even more people [ ] the videos. After only a few months online, videos [ ] more than 130 million viewers. In 2006, the three founders of YouTube [ ] their company to Google for 1.65 billion US dollars! YouTube is the third most visited website on the Internet after Google and Facebook!