Tuesday, July 07, 2009

The First YouTube Video

While I was reading through the internet today I read an article about how YouTube was never going to make any money and that the three founders who managed to get almost $2 billion from Google when they sold the site had made the deal of the century. The article also mentioned the first YouTube video ever and so I wanted to find it for myself.

It is hard to believe that YouTube is barely four years old. It feels like it has been around forever. This video below was shot in April of 2005 and features Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. Jawed was one of the founders of YouTube. A few hours after the 19 seconds of video was shot, they uploaded it and the rest is history.