Introduction
The first video on YouTube was shot by Yakov Lapitsky and features Jawed Kim, one of the company's founders, at the San Diego Zoo. Entitled "Me at the zoo," it is 19 seconds long.
That video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw) was uploaded on Saturday, April 23, 2005, at 8:27 p.m. At that time, YouTube's headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
In front of the elephants, Kim says, "The cool thing about these guys today is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks." An annotation added more than three years later asks, "Can you hear the goat? MEEEEEEEEEEEH!" As of May 2009, "Me at the zoo" had more than 684,000 views. The video had also received over 4,400 ratings, been favorited ...
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