YouTube users may now upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week, but the site once hosted less than a hundred clips. And the very first, precedent-setting video was…about elephants?
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim holds the distinction for the first upload with “Me at the Zoo” on April 23, 2005. Over 18 seconds, he explains what is so cool about the elephants at the San Diego Zoo. [New Yorker via NPR via Buzzfeed]
Commander Shepard
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 5:42 PMwow, trunks. who would have known
JonBOY
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 6:23 PMHD version? lol
adi
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 11:47 PMwow, multi-millionaire. who would have known
Naed
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 1:49 AMHow come there isn’t a movie about the founding of YouTube? Also, it should be precedent, not prescedent.
Logan Booker
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 9:46 AMThanks, this has been fixed.