It was 10 years ago that a man named Jawed Karim came up with the concept of the video sharing site YouTube, and uploaded the first ever video of his zoo visit on the website.
The then 25 year-old posted the 19-second clip titled “Me at the Zoo” on April 23, 2005, which was filmed at San Diego Zoo’s elephant enclosure.
YouTube was started by Javed, and former PayPal employees Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. In 2006, Google acquired YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion in stock.
Today, YouTube has 800 million unique users a month and 300 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, three times more than in 2014. Amazing, right?