It started out as a dating website, before it was opened up to videos of any kind. Google turned it into the juggernaut it is ...

Most people don't know the original concept for the site was for it to be a dating platform. YouTube was bought by Google for ...

On April 23, 2005, Jawed Karim posted the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, the website he co-founded with two friends a couple of months prior. The 19-second “Me at the zoo” is brief and ...

The three future co-founders of the internet's largest video sharing platform - Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim - earned a pretty penny after eBay's acquisition of PayPal, but left the ...

YouTube/Jawed It's called "Me at the zoo" and it was uploaded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. This early clip is a now seen as an iconic part of the internet's history – and marks the ...

Part of Google Gemini, Veo 3 was unveiled at Google I/O 2025 and is the first generative video platform that can, with a single prompt, generate a video with synced dialogue, sound effects, and ...

It lacks the high production values present in so many of today’s YouTube videos, but then Jawed Karim wasn’t aiming for anything slick. It was merely a little something to launch his new ...

Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0.It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo" to his ...

Shot at the San Diego Zoo, the primitive video clip showed Jawed Karim, the platform’s co-founder, complimenting the elephants in the frame behind him. “The cool thing about these guys is they ...