The 1st YouTube Video

The story of the very first video uploaded on YouTube

The first YouTube video Me At The Zoo elephants 2005 Jawed Karim header cover photo

The first YouTube video was uploaded by Jawed Karim at 8.27pm on Saturday the 23rd April 2005. (video time = 18 second video)

Transcript : “Alright, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that’s, that’s cool. And that’s pretty much all there is to say.” ~ Jawed Karim

The 18 second video was filmed at San Diego Zoo by Jawed’s high school friend Yakov Lapitsky (who later become an engineering professor). The video has been viewed over 19 million times in the first 10 years, and by December 2019 had over 81 million views. Jawed Karim also started the first YouTube channel, in order to upload the first video, but never posted another video on this account : Youtube.com/user/jawed/feed ~ with 681,000 subscribers (as of December 2019).

About Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim is a Bangladeshi-German internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of YouTube with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Jawed Karim was also one of the first engineers at PayPal, and designed and implemented many of the core components of PayPal, including the real-time anti-fraud system. Jawed holds degrees in computer science from Stanford University and the University of Illinois.

Jawed sold YouTube to Google in 2006, for $1.65 billion (US), and Jawed received 137,443 shares of stock for the transaction, which was worth approximately $64 million at the time.

In 2008, Jawed launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures, which is now known as Y Ventures, which aims to help current and former university students to develop and launch their business ideas.

Y Ventures is focused on the internet consumer space to work with students and new entrepreneurs. Jawed Karim, along with Kevin Hartz, and Keith Rabois, are the three founders of the fund. Kevin Hartz was the co-founder of Eventbrite.com (event registration service), and co-founder and CEO of Xoom.com (a Pay Pal system). Keith Rabois ran business development and advertising sales for LinkedIn.

official website : YVentures.com

Jawed Karim’s official YouTube channel : YouTube.com/user/jawed

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About YouTube

The YouTube website is ranked at number 2 in the world by Alexa Internet

How did YouTube start?

In this video Dagogo takes a look at how large the YouTube website is and how it started. (2015 YouTube video by Dagogo Altraide @ ColdFusion)

The evolution of the YouTube website

See the 18 year evolution of the YouTube website in 2 minutes, from the launch in 2005 to 2017 (YouTube video by 4096)

The Evolutionary History of YouTube

Since YouTube’s inception in 2005, it has been the mecca of online video sharing. From viral videos, vloggers, pranksters, lets plays and more, we’ve seen many different styles and genres come and go on the video platform. Go for a journey back in time with WavyWebSurf, as he explores the eras of YouTube’s evolutionary history (2017 YouTube video)

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about San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo is located in the 100 acres of Balboa Park, in San Diego, California, USA. It contains over 3,500 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies. San Diego Zoo was a pioneer in the concept of open-air, cageless exhibitions, which re-create natural habitats for animals. They are also known for successfully breeding giant pandas (recently repatriated to China). In 2013 a new Australian Outback exhibition was added, and in 2017 the Africa Rocks exhibition was opened. Over 4 million people have visited San Diego Zoo, making it the most visited zoo in USA. ~ official website : zoo.SanDiegoZoo.org

Take a virtual tour of San Diego Zoo on Google Street View

San Diego Zoo on YouTube

see more videos at the San Diego Zoo YouTube channel

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This page was last updated on 1st January 2020

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