The initial upload on YouTube was this video.

YouTube is one of the most used applications and platforms worldwide. Even many people have managed to make their job the practice of uploading content on it.

However, few people believed that YouTube would become such a successful platform worldwide, nor that the first video uploaded to it would become an important part of cinema history.

What was the first video uploaded on YouTube?

YouTube was created on February 15, 2005. The first video to be uploaded on the platform was posted on April 23, 2005, and the same video can still be seen on YouTube.

The video is called “Me at the zoo” (“Me in the zoo”, in Spanish), and has a duration of 18 seconds. It stars Jawed Karim (along with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen), who filmed himself in a zoo with some elephants in the background.

“Well here we are, in front of the elephants. The good thing about these guys is that they have really big trunks. And that’s great, that’s pretty much all I have to say,” Jawed Karim is heard saying in the video.

The video had reached more than 260 million views and is the only video posted on the channel by the YouTube co-founder.

How did YouTube come about?

According to the official story of the creators of the platform, YouTube arose from the idea of ​​creating a web page to easily share videos, after how difficult it was for them to share some that they had recorded at a party in the city. from San Francisco.

However, years later Karim denied this, saying that the idea had been his, while his former partners affirm that his real idea was to create a dating site where users could upload videos.

Since then, YouTube has grown exponentially, has a presence in more than 90 countries, has versions in more than 70 languages, and has billions of users with an account on the platform.