On April 23, 2005 – The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim:
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YouTube began as a dating site. they gave the website the tagline of “Tune In Hook Up.” It was a platform where singles could upload videos of themselves and hook up with other users.
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Despite being only 18s long and showing almost nothing, the original episode of "Me at the zoo" has had 228,175,749 views as of this time on April 23, 2022.
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Really, that's what they called it, if this was a platform started today, it'd probably be a video outlining how to use the platform with some really cool graphics, not a trip to the zoo, but then again, no one knows how popular our work will become eh! :)
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