Jake Broe

Today was the 20th anniversary of the first ever video uploaded to YouTube! It was uploaded by YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim on April 23rd, 2005. This was 19 seconds that transformed the world!

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@DianaDeLuna

The minute we got broadband internet, YouTube was the very first site I went to. Finding long-lost commercials & Sesame Street clips from my childhood felt like the greatest gift from the gods.

5 days ago | 0

@Belenus3080

Trippy seeing “20 years ago” on the video. I remember when it came out and I’ve been hooked since. Many platforms have come and gone but YouTube has pretty much maintained its status.

6 days ago (edited) | 1

@scisher3294

It’s “Lil Broe”! 😊 That is a cool milestone/memory to still have in hand. Very cool

6 days ago | 0

@phxfarmer4844

Respect for starting youtube I couldn't live without it

1 week ago | 6

@lipgloss202

... and the efficiency at offices has steadily declined since.

6 days ago | 0

@the_undead

Random somewhat related fun fact, as far as I'm aware I watch one of the oldest YouTube channels that still uploads somewhat regularly, (there's usually a few months between uploads but that's par for the course for a lot of science channels, the channel is styropyro)

6 days ago | 2

@maximfrancescozoni5252

The beginning of the end...

1 week ago | 8

@generessler6282

Absolutely. Enjoy the current seamless experience. By the time the pols and lawyers of the world are through with Alphabet, it probably won't be.

6 days ago | 0

@rustyheyman214

For all those who hesitate, put something out there. Ship it. Create it. It doesn’t have to be great at first but it has to be something.

1 week ago | 0

@shrek2567

I haven't known before the elephant family could visit the zoo.

6 days ago | 0

@stallion78

Damn feeling old

1 week ago | 1

@Alexander_Kale

The wildest part about this is how relatively few views this has...

5 days ago (edited) | 0

@thejollygreendragon8394

Well, that was a moment in history

1 week ago | 10  

@glorm

There are about 2,500 video uploads every minute currently. Amazing. Thanks, Jake, for the ones you upload.

1 week ago | 28  

@mikekruiser5682

I think we're over due a moderator shake up

1 week ago | 0

@onesandzeroes

"They have really, really long trunks. And that's pretty much all there' isto say" Origins (oranges) of Trumpism.

1 week ago | 0

@des_smith7658

I couldn't possibly comment

1 week ago | 0

@Just_another_Euro_dude

So now it's a YouTube cofounder? For years and decades it was just a random dude in the zoo. Now we found out it was a damn YouTube cofounder? How the world makes MUCH MORE sense when you got all the right info. And how everything suddenly becomes way more corrupt.

1 week ago (edited) | 0

@chasejohnson6453

350,000,000 views

1 week ago | 0

@Flornmonk

And my account is 19 years old.

1 week ago | 8