Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim started the YouTube in 2005. And the first video uploaded there, Me At The Zoo, was by the founding member Jawed Karim.

The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. Below is that video. Take a look at this



YouTube's First Video Upload

 
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