“Me at the Zoo.”
That’s the Title of one The Video to Start All Videos. The “Big Bang” Of The Video-Sharing World.
It was the First-Ever Clip Uploaded to YouTube20 years ago. That zoo? The One in San Diego’s Backyard.
On April 23, 2005, YouTube Founder Jawed Karim Shared the UNEDID 18-Second Clip of HimSelf in Front of the Elephant Enclosure at the San Diego Zoo. It was shot by his Co-Founder Yakov Lapitsky.
“ALRIGHT, so here is in Front of the Elephants,” Karim Casually Shares with the Camera. “The cool think about these guys 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.”
It was the first-ever Clip Uploaded to YouTube, 18 years ago. That zoo? The One in San Diego’s Backyard.
And that’s Pretty Much the Start of the Largest Video-Sharing Platform in the World. “Me at the Zoo” now has more than 355 million video views and more than 10 million comments.
A month after the first video clip was uploaded – which the playform was in Beta Mode – YouTube was already Garnering About 300,000 Video Views a day. By the end of the year, the playform was getting two Million views a day.
And that’s pretty much all there is to say.
