Here is the First-Ever Video That Was Posted on YouTube

Jun. 1, 2020

The YouTube that we know now is a massive video streaming platform with innumerable audience members. However,it is fascinating to see from where the platform started its journey. So, in this article, I want to talk about the very first video that was uploaded on the platform, and surprisingly, it still exists.

In the video, Karim tells us about a rather basic fact about elephants and I found it quite funny, to be honest. He starts by saying,“All right, so here we are in front of the elephants,”and then went on to stammer his way to tell us that elephants have“really, really, really long trunks, and that’s, that’s cool”. He then ends the video by saying,“And that’s pretty much all there is to say”. You can check out the video down below.

Watching this video made me realize how far YouTube has come from that point.Not long after its public launch, the platform was acquired by Google for a whopping $1.65 billion. It was the largest acquisition by Google at that time and the company did not regret taking the video-platform under its wing.

Now, YouTube makes as much as$15 billion in revenues, has a dedicatedmusic streaming platform, andproduces original content. So, what started as a small-time video platform, has now become the video-streaming behemoth that we know as YouTube.

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