YouTube 20th Anniversary
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First YouTube video was uploaded on 2005 April 23.
Link to videoOnly twenty years, and it changed the entertainment and media landscape across the world.
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Interesting!!
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The grainy 19-second YouTube video that started it all hardly had the makings of a viral sensation.
Shot at the San Diego Zoo, the primitive video clip showed Jawed Karim, the platform’s co-founder, complimenting the elephants in the frame behind him. “The cool thing about these guys is they have really, really, really long trunks,” Karim said.
The clip, titled “Me at the zoo,” was the first video uploaded onto YouTube 20 years ago, opening the door to a new medium of television.
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When YouTube first started in San Mateo, its founders weren’t thinking they would take on the television industry.
They envisioned it as a dating site where people would upload videos and score them. When that didn’t work, the founders decided to open up the platform for all sorts of videos. Users drove traffic to YouTube by sharing videos on MySpace.
