20 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOUTUBE

YouTube’s First Video Uploaded Five Years Ago

Yes you have Facebook, Twitter, ect, BUT, In my book, two things has made New Media.

One is Apple iMovie/Final Cut (just had its own 10 year anniversary), putting low cost non-linear editing software in eveybody hands.

Two is YouTube, but one has to ask if it was not for iMovie/Final Cut would YouTube be as big as it is?

Hat Tip to Stan Schroeder & Mashable







Stan Schroeder

Although YouTube’s birthday is officially February 14, 2005, the first video was actually uploaded to the site exactly five years ago, on April 23, 2005.

The video is titled “Me at the zoo.” It was shot by Yakov Lapitsky and it’s only 19 seconds long, showing one of YouTube’s founders, Jawed Karim, at the San Diego Zoo.

The video doesn’t look like much, but it sparked a revolution; by July 2006, more than 65,000 videos were uploaded to the site every day. In October that same year Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion — a reminder of how fast things move in the age of the Internet.

See the first ever YouTube video below...

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.