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Apr 2024
11m 39s

Me At The Zoo

The Retrospectors
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On 23 April 2005, software engineer Jawed Karim posted an 18-second clip of himself standing in front of some elephants at the San Diego Zoo – a video which is largely unremarkable, except for the fact it was the first ever clip uploaded to the site Karim cofounded: YouTube. The video has since received 260 million views, 13 million likes, and 11 million com ... Show More
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