20 years ago today, a trip to the zoo started the wild world of YouTube!

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR It’s been 20 years since the first YouTube video was uploaded. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the video “Me at the zoo” on April 23, 2005. The video, which now has over 355 million views, symbolizes YouTube’s humble beginnings. On April 23, 2005, exactly 20 years ago today, a low-resolution, 18-second video titled “Me at the zoo” quietly went up and launched what would become the biggest video platform on the planet — YouTube. Uploaded on April 23, 2005, the tiny clip features Jawed Karim, one of YouTube’s co-founders, casually talking about elephants at the San Diego Zoo. By today’s standards of YouTube videos, “Me at the zoo” is quite an underwhelming watch. There’s no production quality, no audio mastering, nothing but a 25-year-old software engineer pointing to elephants behind him and saying, “The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks.” Unknowingly, though, Karim was making internet ... Read full article.