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In April 2005, one of the co-creators of YouTube uploaded a 19-second video of himself talking while standing in front of an elephant titled “Me at the zoo.” Twenty years later, the platform ...
Forest Park Zoo Executive Director Sarah Tsitso, along with Natasha, a Russian tortoise, sits down with So That Reminds Me hosts Dennis Hackett and Lauren LeBel to discuss Forest Park Zoo’s 2025 ...
A man has recreated the first ever YouTube video a whopping 20 years later and the differences are astounding. It’s crazy to think that the first video was posted to YouTube all the way back in 2005.
The first video uploaded on YouTube is titled “Me at the zoo,” and it shows one of the platform’s founders, Jawed Karim, admiring the elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Karim founded YouTube in ...
The global video-sharing platform started in 2005, with the first video uploaded to the site titled “Me at the zoo”, a 19-second clip featuring YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in front of an ...
YouTube turned 20 this April 2025 and the video streaming platform has come a long way since the first YouTube video titled Me at the Zoo uploaded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in 2005. The ...
It was 20 years ago last week when the first YouTube video was uploaded. Entitled ‘Me at the Zoo’, the 19-second clip featured YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in front of two elephants at San ...
By the way that very first video is still up, still unedited, and two decades later, it’s a reminder of how far we’ve come and how YouTube has become a sort of utility. Writes Viraj Mahesh ...
a grainy 19-second clip of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing near an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo. “Me at the zoo” became emblematic of one of the platform’s first core ...
On April 23, 2005, Karim uploaded the platform's first video titled ‘Me at the Zoo’—an 18-second clip of himself at San Diego Zoo that would become an important artifact in internet history. YouTube's ...
The domain YouTube.com launched on Valentine's Day that year. Video uploading capabilities were added on April 23, when Karim posted the first video, titled "Me at the Zoo." The 19-second clip showing ...