April 23, 2005: At 8:31 PM Pacific Time, 11:31 Eastern Time, "Me at the zoo" becomes the 1st video uploaded to YouTube.
It is uploaded by Jawed Karim, a co-founder of YouTube. Karim, then 25 years old, described the elephants in the San Diego Zoo, in front of a video camera operated by a friend from high school, Yakov Lapitsky.
The video is 18 seconds long, with Karim saying, "All right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants. And the cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks. And that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say."
Karim turned out to be much better as a businessman than as a commentator. With Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, whom he met while working at PayPal, he founded YouTube. By October 2006, it had already become so successful that Google bought it from them for $1.65 billion.
Born in Germany to a German mother and a Bangladeshi father, Karim went to high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, and got degrees from the University of Illinois and Stanford. After selling YouTube, he got in on the ground floors of Airbnb and Reddit.
As of April 23, 2022, the original video has over 222 million views.
With the founding of YouTube, of Facebook the year before, and of Twitter the year after, social media grew so much, allowing people to post their own content -- essentially, running their own TV/film studios and news channels -- that, in 2006, Time magazine put a "mirror panel" on their cover, and named "You" as Person of the Year. So, some people altered their online profile to read "Time Magazine Person of the Year for 2006" -- because, technically, it was true.
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April 23, 2005 was a Saturday. The following Major League Baseball games were played that day:
* The New York Yankees lost to the Texas Rangers, 10-2 at the old Yankee Stadium. Jaret Wright got rocked, and future Yankee Mark Teixeira hit 2 home runs for the Rangers.
* The New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals, 10-5 at Shea Stadium.
* The Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 11-1 at Turner Field in Atlanta.
* The Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the Boston Red Sox, 6-5 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
* The Florida Marlins beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2 at Dolphins Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) in Miami Gardens, Florida.
* The Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-1 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
* The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs, 4-3 at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
* The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros, 1-0 at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis. Larry Walker singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning.
* The Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals, 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. Aaron Rowand singled home the winning run in the top of the 10th inning.
* The Colorado Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-6 at Coors Field in Denver.
* The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres, 2-1 at Chase Field in Phoenix.
* The Los Angeles Angels beat the Oakland Athletics, 9-5 at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
* The San Francisco Giants beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 6-2 at SBC Park (now Oracle Park) in San Francisco.
* And the Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners, 5-2 at Safeco Field (now T-Mobile Park) in Seattle.
Football was out of season. And the NHL season had been canceled due to the team owners locking out the players. However, the NBA Playoffs got underway on this day:
* The Detroit Pistons beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 106-85 at The Palace in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan.
* The Boston Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers, 102-82 at the FleetCenter (now the TD Garden) in Boston.
* The Houston Rockets beat the Dallas Mavericks, 98-86 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
* And the Seattle SuperSonics beat the Sacramento Kings, 87-82 at the KeyArena in Seattle.
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