In fact, the first words ever spoken on YouTube were simply, ‘Alright, so here we are, in front of the elephants’. These words came from YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim and to this day, it is the only ...

YouTube turns 20 today, marking two decades since co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the platform's first-ever video, "Me at the Zoo." Along with Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, the trio quickly ...

Shot at the San Diego Zoo in the US state of California, the primitive video clip showed Jawed Karim, the platform’s co-founder, complimenting the elephants in the frame behind him.

Its first video was posted 20 years ago this week, now more than 20 million are uploaded each day – yet the media giant attracts little scrutiny from regulators Jawed Karim in the very first ...

A simple, 18-second video featuring Jawed Karim—one of YouTube’s co-founders—standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, casually talking about trunks. That’s it.

YouTube turns 20: Watch the first video uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim YouTube has had more than 20 billion videos have been uploaded to the site as of April, the company stated on Wednesday ...

We've come a long way since that day at the zoo. 20 years ago today, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the first video to YouTube. Less than 20 seconds long, it showed Karim standing in ...

The video, uploaded on April 23, 2025, shows co-founder Jawed Karim talking about elephants and their "cool" trunks. As a neat little homage, if you watch the video today, the timeline bar shows a ...

Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0.It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo" to his ...

Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0.It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo" to his ...

Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0. It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo" to his ...