The First YouTube Video
YouTube is the world’s dominant video sharing platform, but it had to have started somewhere — and it did. On April 23, 2005, site cofounder Jawed Karim posted a 19-second clip of himself in front of some elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
To date, the rather unimpressive video has garnered nearly 64 million views. For comparison’s sake, the most-viewed video on YouTube is currently the music video for Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee” with more than 6 billion views as of the writing of this article.