👉 The first video uploaded on YouTube was “Me at the Zoo”, posted by co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
In this short 18-second clip, Jawed Karim stands in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo and casually talks about their long trunks. While the video itself is simple, it marked the beginning of a platform that would completely transform how the world shares and consumes content.
What started as a basic, personal video has now grown into a global phenomenon, with YouTube becoming one of the largest video-sharing platforms in the world, hosting billions of videos and creators from every corner of the globe.
