It all began at the zoo. If you've used the Internet in the last 15 years, you've likely watched at least one video on YouTube.
But, before it became the home of music videos and tutorials or the platform for a new kind of celebrity, it was where you could watch 18 seconds of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim's trip to the zoo.
15 years ago today, on April 23, 2005, Karim uploaded the platform's first-ever video, which simply featured him standing in front of some elephants at the San Diego Zoo. "All right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants, and the cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that's, that's cool, and that's pretty much all there is to say," he said. .
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