YouTube celebrated its 10th anniversary back in February. It was founded on Feb. 14th, 2005. But the first actual video was posted ten years ago today.
It's an 18-second clip of one of the co-founders standing in front of an elephant pen at the San Diego Zoo. In addition to being the first YouTube video, it also might be the most boring. If you want to watch it, it's called "Me at the Zoo".
It's accumulated more than 19 million hits, from people like you who are simply curious to see what the first YouTube video was.
Ten years later, YouTube now has more than a billion users, and 300 hours of footage gets uploaded every minute. "Gangnam Style" is still the most-watched YouTube video of all time, with 2.3 billion hits.