Me at the zoo is the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005 at 20:27:12 PDT (April 24, 2005 at 3:27:12 UTC) by the site's co-founder Jawed Karim, with the username "jawed" and recorded by his high school friend Yakov Lapitsky.
He created a YouTube account on the same day.
The nineteen-second video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, featuring Karim in front of the elephants in their old exhibit in Elephant Mesa, professing his interest in their "really, really, really long trunks".
Video Me at the zoo
Transcript and caption
The transcript of the video is:
All right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants, and 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.
Maps Me at the zoo
Updates
In 2013, Karim protested YouTube's plan to require Google+ accounts for all commenters. As part of this, he updated the description of "Me at the zoo" and added two annotations to the video.
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." The Observer describes its production quality as "poor". As of March 2018, the video has received more than 45 million views and more than 430,000 comments. It rapidly became the most accepted video on YouTube outlining what YouTube was to become.
References
External links
- Me at the zoo on YouTube
- Me at the zoo on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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