Video: 'Me at the zoo'

(Saturday, April 23, 2005) — The recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip today. Titled “Me at the Zoo,” the video consisted of 18 seconds of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, commenting on the animals’ “really, really, really long, uh, trunks.”

Today, YouTube claims more than 1 billion users and says that 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.