{"id":542074,"date":"2010-04-23T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101867"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:26:23","slug":"youtube-celebrates-fifth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542074","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Celebrates Fifth Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/YouTube-Logo-500x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"YouTube Logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-101875\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you believe it&#8217;s been 5 years since the very first video went live on YouTube.com?<\/p>\n<p>Geez, what did people do for chuckles before we had knee-slappers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cIwTYL1fwJk\">&#8220;Scarlett Takes A Tumble&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dYqM9-Fj0Pg\">&#8220;The Breakfast Song&#8221;<\/a> to split our sides to?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-101867\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jNQXAC9IVRw&#038;border=1&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jNQXAC9IVRw&#038;border=1&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Today, April 23, is the anniversary of the day a 19 second clip entitled &#8220;Me At The Zoo became the first video uploaded to YouTube. The world&#8217;s leading video-sharing interface has become such a pop culture phenomenon it seems hard to believe it&#8217;s only 5 years old. Over the past half a decade, millions of videos have been uploaded and shared all over the globe.<\/p>\n<p>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:<em> &#8220;The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me At The Zoo&#8221; now has more than 1,975,791 views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IdzSOxhu9lGhE5NPPa75M0C_gis\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IdzSOxhu9lGhE5NPPa75M0C_gis\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IdzSOxhu9lGhE5NPPa75M0C_gis\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IdzSOxhu9lGhE5NPPa75M0C_gis\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it&#8217;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 &#8220;Scarlett Takes A Tumble&#8221; and &#8220;The Breakfast Song&#8221; to split our sides to? Today, April 23, is the anniversary of the day a 19 second clip entitled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}