Watch the YouTube video that launched the site exactly 20 years ago

Today marks two decades since the co-founder of YouTube uploaded the first video, and since then nothing has been heard from him again. What happened to Jawed Jarim?

The video platform YouTube is now 20 years old. Only 19 seconds was the first video - blurred, shaky and with tinned sound. It was recorded by Youtube founder Jawed Karim, in the zoo of San Diego. Today the company makes billions of sales.

Twenty years ago, Jawed Karim filmed and commented at the San Diego Elephant Zoo. "Me at the zoo" is the first YouTube video to be viewed 348 million times. Rattana Schicketanz, head of Video WORLD TV, congratulates the platform for its 20th birthday.

Watch the YouTube video that launched the site exactly 20 years ago

It lacks the high production values present in so many of today’s YouTube videos, but then Jawed Karim wasn’t aiming for anything slick. It was merely a little something to launch his new video streaming site. Filmed at San Diego Zoo by a friend and posted on April 23, 2005, Karim says straight to camera: […]

YouTube is 20 years old since the release of its first video 'Me at the zoo' (I at the zoo) that...

TODAY BEFORE 20 YEARS, ON 23 APRIL 2005, GING WITH ‘Me at the Zoo' THE FIRST VIDEO ONLINE ON YOUTUBE. TWO YEAR-TENTERS IS YOUTUBE WITH MILLIARDS OF USERS: THE LOCATED ONLINE VIDEOPLATTFORM OF THE WORLD. ABOUT 6,5 MIO. PEOPLE IN AUSTRIA USE THE PLATFORM MONTHLY. A PERSON IN AUSTRIA OVER 45 MINUTES PER DAY YOUTUBE. Wolfgang Fasching-Kapfenberg Press Spokesman YouTube Austria Agency The Skills Group I Team Farner Sophie Schmid 01-505 26 25-11 youtu…