Me at the zoo
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| Me at the zoo | |
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| Website | YouTube |
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| Filmed by | Yakov Lapitsky |
| Uploader | Jawed Karim |
| Duration | 0:19 |
| Category | Film & Animations |
Me at the zoo is the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. It was uploaded at 8:27 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, 2005 by the site's cofounder Jawed Karim, with the username "jawed" and recorded by his high school friend Yakov Lapitsky.[1][2][3]
He created an account on YouTube the same day.[4]
The nineteen-second video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, featuring Karim in front of the elephants, professing his interest in their "really, really, really long trunks".[5][6]
Transcript and caption
The transcript of the video is:
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Alright, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants. Uh. The cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say.
The YouTube Captions text is:
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All right, so here we are in front of the elephants, the cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say.
Reception
The Los Angeles Times explains that "as the first video uploaded to YouTube, it played a pivotal role in fundamentally altering how people consumed media and helped usher in a golden era of the 60-second video."[7] The Observer describes its production quality as "poor".[5] As of April 2016[update], the video has received more than 30 million views and more than 200,000 comments.[8]
Legacy
In 2013, the video description was updated in protest of Google+ and two annotations were added to the video.[9]
On the tenth anniversary of YouTube in 2015, the description was changed to "The first video on YouTube. Maybe it's time to go back to the zoo?"
References
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- ↑ Bonanos, Paul (April 23, 2014). Happy Ninth Birthday YouTube: From 'Me at the Zoo' to a Billion Monthly Visits, Billboard (magazine)
