On this day, history was made 11 years ago, when Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of the popular video sharing website YouTube made the first-ever upload titled, 'Me at the zoo'.
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Karim uploaded the video at 8:27 pm on Saturday, April 23 in 2005 under the username "jawed".
<img title="A screenshot of the video &quot;Me at the zoo&quot;. Courtesy: YouTube, Jawed Karim" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/jun/jawed-karim-youtube.jpg" alt="A screenshot of the video &quot;Me at the zoo&quot;. Courtesy: YouTube, Jawed Karim" /> A screenshot of the video "Me at the zoo". Courtesy: YouTube, Jawed Karim
The video features Karim standing before elephants, explaining how interesting their "really, really, really long trunks" are, and is 18 seconds long.

On this day, history was made 11 years ago, when Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of the popular video sharing website YouTube made the first-ever upload titled, 'Me at the zoo'

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