Watch YouTube’s first ever video - uploaded 10 years ago today

On this day 10 years ago, the very first video was uploaded to a new little site named YouTube.

Watch YouTube’s first ever video - uploaded 10 years ago today
Thu, 23 Apr, 2015 - 01:00
Ciara Flaherty

The 19-second-long video taken by Jawed Karim rather anti-climatically shows him at San Diego Zoo's elephant enclosure.

And that's about it.

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