Happy 13th birthday to the very first YouTube video

The first video uploaded to YouTube is finally a teen.

Thirteen years ago on Monday — on April 23, 2005 — YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded this 18 second clip to the site just a few months after the domain was secured, and nothing’s been the same since. 

By the YouTube standards of today, it’s a pretty dull video, but it does embody much of internet culture with a subtle dick joke. 

“So here we are in front of the elephants,” he says, calmly. “Cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long…trunks,” he jokes. “That’s cool. And that’s pretty much all there is to say.” Read more…

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