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At 8:27 p.m. PST on April 23, 2005, a user named “jawed” uploaded a nineteen-second video of himself eyeing some elephants’ “really, really, really long trunks” to a two-month-old website. Entitled “Me at the zoo,” it was the first clip ever posted on the now-media giant YouTube, which jawed (a.k.a. entrepreneur Jawed Karim) had cofounded with two of his then-coworkers at PayPal.

Simple as it was, that initial YouTube video “played a pivotal role in fundamentally altering how people consumed media,” wrote The Los Angeles Times in 2010, when YouTube celebrated five years of existence. Now 13, YouTube is the third most-visited website after Google and Facebook, with 1.8 billion monthly active users across the world (and counting).  Read more…

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