YouTube A to Z: #HappyBirthdayYouTube

Each journey begins someplace, and YouTube’s started on Saturday, April 23, 2005, when “Me on the Zoo” turned the primary video uploaded to a brand new website nobody had ever heard of. Captured at California’s San Diego Zoo, the clip is a 19-second description of what exactly makes elephants so cool. Its temporary runtime and informal setup recommend little of the web video craziness that may comply with over the next decade.

Nevertheless it seems “Me on the Zoo” proved to be a easy distillation of the premise of the brand new platform, the place anybody might simply activate a digital camera and broadcast themselves with ease. Who might have predicted that, in that very same setting, new genres, new types of expression, and new paths to stardom would evolve? That partaking and distinctive personalities borne of this place could possibly be more influential than Hollywood’s largest names? Or that greater than a billion individuals from all corners of the globe would come collectively in that area to expertise what the world creates, broadcasts, and shares?

Yeah. We have been surprised, too.

For our tenth birthday this month, we have gone from A to Z celebrating the adorable, empowering, awesome, weird and wonderful moments that symbolize the various sides of YouTube. However, in fact, if we’re actually going to seize 10 years of YouTube, we will have to do it in … a video:

Thanks for a wild and galvanizing 10 years. Now, you’ve got obtained 300 hours of video to capture and share in the next minute. So get again to it!

**Bonus Factors: How nicely have you learnt YouTube, A to Z? Play the YouTube trivia recreation to seek out out at YouTube.com/10.

Posted by the YouTube Staff

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