Me at the zoo
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Me at the zoo is the first ever video uploaded to YouTube, the most popular video hosting Web site on the planet. It was uploaded at 2005-04-23 20:31:52 PDT (UTC-7) and has since received over 393 million views and 10.5 million comments as of June 2026.
Because YouTube is such a renowned service, the video is an important part of Internet history. The video can be grabbed using any YouTube downloader, such as yt-dlp or Video DownloadHelper.
Plot
The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, being recorded by his high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky. In the video, Karim is seen standing in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California, where he briefly comments on the length of their trunks.