Exactly 17 years ago, April 24, 2005 First video uploaded to YouTube. Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube Taken at the San Diego Zoonotes in the 19-second low-resolution video titled Me at the Zoo that elephants have remarkably long trunks.
Karim poses for the camera in his first YouTube video.Ok, here we are in front of the elephants” and “The great thing about these guys is that they have really, really long trunks. That’s all there is to say.” he continues.
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First video uploaded to YouTube: Me at the Zoo
The beta version was launched shortly after Karim posted the video, and the official launch was made later that same year. Around the same time, Karim left YouTube to pursue a master’s degree in Computer Science at Stanford University. in 2006 When Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion He owned tens of millions of dollars worth of stock.
shiftdelete.netthis video The only detail that makes it specialIt’s not that it’s the first video on YouTube. When Karim makes a change on the platform that he doesn’t like, he edits the video’s description to express his opinion on it and voices his criticisms. For example, YouTube he criticized it when he concealed the dislikes numbers.
Titled Me at the Zoo, this video has received more than 228 million views and 11 million comments as of April 2022. A recent comment is quite striking: “Let’s be honest, we’re all going to show this video to our kids one day.”
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