Internet & Gaming
When was the first YouTube video uploaded?
23 Apr 2005 AD
The first YouTube video was uploaded on 23 April 2005 AD.
1 BC · 1 AD
Context
What happened?
The nineteen-second clip, titled “Me at the zoo,” shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing near elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Karim’s friend Yakov Lapitsky recorded the short video.
Significance
Why it matters
The modest upload became the starting marker for a platform that transformed online video publishing and viewing. Its brevity and ordinary subject also capture how early web video differed from the highly produced creator economy that followed.
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