(video) The FIRST ever video, uploaded to Youtube

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Jawed/YouTube

• A website for hosting and sharing videos called YouTube was launched to the public 15 years ago.
  
  
• YouTube's cofounders uploaded the first video to the platform, still in beta, while in April 2005.
  
  
• The video they selected — called "Me at the Zoo" and starring cofounder Jawed Karim — forged a path for billions of hours of YouTube videos to come in the years since.

Fifteen years ag0, a guy named Jawed Karim posted the first-ever video to YouTube.

The 18-second video, entitled "Me at the zoo," features Karim, a YouTube cofounder, at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of a bunch of elephants.

"All right, so here we are in front of the elephants," he says in the clip. "The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say."

The low-quality video was posted on YouTube a month before the platform's public beta launch in May 2005. By this point, YouTube's team had pivoted from an idea for a dating site to a vision for a platform that made online video more accessible and easier to share. The website then officially launched in November 2005.

Karim left the company in 2005, instead going to Stanford University to get a masters degree in computer science. But when Google later acquired YouTube in 2006, Karim got 137,443 shares of stock in the company worth roughly $64 million. Karim went on to found venture capital firm Youniversity Ventures, which has invested in companies including Airbnb.

 

[Chanakyaa]

Keep it Up.
Congratulations.

 

[Crusher]

Jawed/YouTube

• A website for hosting and sharing videos called YouTube was launched to the public 15 years ago.
  
  
• YouTube's cofounders uploaded the first video to the platform, still in beta, while in April 2005.
  
  
• The video they selected — called "Me at the Zoo" and starring cofounder Jawed Karim — forged a path for billions of hours of YouTube videos to come in the years since.

Fifteen years ag0, a guy named Jawed Karim posted the first-ever video to YouTube.

The 18-second video, entitled "Me at the zoo," features Karim, a YouTube cofounder, at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of a bunch of elephants.

"All right, so here we are in front of the elephants," he says in the clip. "The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say."

The low-quality video was posted on YouTube a month before the platform's public beta launch in May 2005. By this point, YouTube's team had pivoted from an idea for a dating site to a vision for a platform that made online video more accessible and easier to share. The website then officially launched in November 2005.

Karim left the company in 2005, instead going to Stanford University to get a masters degree in computer science. But when Google later acquired YouTube in 2006, Karim got 137,443 shares of stock in the company worth roughly $64 million. Karim went on to found venture capital firm Youniversity Ventures, which has invested in companies including Airbnb.

I remember I was just accidentally introduced to Youtube at the end of 2006 by one of my friend who was doing a masters degree in software engineering. I wasn't that good in exploring new websites on the internet in those days. Before Youtube I used to search for websites on the internet which used to have songs, small flash-player videos etc. But Youtube was really something on another level even in its primitive shape in late 2006 when I got introduced to it. Since that time to this day Youtube is easily the best website of all times for me. I am now a veteran of Youtube with 14 long years of experience of using it. This is the only website that I have never got bored of till this day. I have seen its remarkable evolution from a platform with mostly 240 pixels low quality videos in early years to full HD 4K 360 degree videos in recent years.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

They should have done something awesome similar to MTV's first video

Buggles - Video killed the radio star