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The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.

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YouTube

Video-sharing and social media platform

YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the…
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Me at the zoo

First video uploaded to YouTube

"Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, recognized as the first video uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, being recorded by his high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky. In the video, Karim is…
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Jawed Karim

American co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)

Jawed Karim is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 360 million times as…
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April 23

Day of the year

April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 252 days remain until the end of the year.
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