Can you believe it’s been 5 years since the very first video went live on YouTube.com?
Geez, what did people do for chuckles before we had knee-slappers like “Scarlett Takes A Tumble” and “The Breakfast Song” to split our sides to?
Today, April 23, is the anniversary of the day a 19 second clip entitled “Me At The Zoo became the first video uploaded to YouTube. The world’s leading video-sharing interface has become such a pop culture phenomenon it seems hard to believe it’s only 5 years old. Over the past half a decade, millions of videos have been uploaded and shared all over the globe.
The video that started it all shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karin during a trip to the San Diego Zoo. A caption accompanying the footage reads: “The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsk.”
“Me At The Zoo” now has more than 1,975,791 views.