10 years later, first ever YouTube video still playing


An 18-second video, “Me at the Zoo,” was posted 10 years ago on April 23, 2015, just weeks before the website became available to the public.

At the time of this writing, the video had been viewed nearly 20,371,000 times — making it, by far, the website's most viewed video. (Source: CNBC.com)

The video was made by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim.

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YouTube is now owned by Google, has a billion users who upload 300 hours of video every minute. (Source: USAToday.com)

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