Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The first You Tube video was posted 9 years ago today

From Time:  Today in Internet history: YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video “Me at the zoo” to the website on April 23, 2005, at 8:27 p.m, according to the description of the video, which now boasts more than 14 million views.

The 19-second clip shows Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo and saying that the “cool thing” about the animals is that “they have really, really, really long, um, trunks.” According to a 2010 editorial in The Toledo Blade, the clip was shot by a high school pal, Yakov Lapitsky, who is now a professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Toledo.

2 comments:

Octopunk said...

I suppose it's appropriate that the first YouTube video ever features a dick joke.

AC said...

What would we do without youtube?

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