Started by Ben Adler (@bennyhacks) ·
the first YouTube video is 19 seconds about elephant trunks
April 23, 2005. Jawed Karim stands in front of the elephants and says their trunks are really long. That's it. Hundreds of millions of views.
6 sources · 18 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- What was the first YouTube video?
- Ended at
- San Diego Zoo
The Trail
- “first youtube video ever uploaded” (google.com)
- Me at the zoo (youtube.com)
- Me at the zoo (en.wikipedia.org)
- Jawed Karim (en.wikipedia.org)
- History of YouTube (en.wikipedia.org)
- San Diego Zoo (en.wikipedia.org)
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