 By the mid-2000s, MTV and many of its sister channels had largely abandoned showing music videos in favor of reality television shows, which were more popular with its audiences, and which MTV had itself helped to pioneer with the show "The Real World", which premiered in 1992.2005 saw the launch of the website YouTube, which made the viewing of online video much faster and easier; Google Videos, Yahoo!Video, Facebook and Myspace's video functionality use similar technology.