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The 5th Anniversary of the First Youtube Video
Submitted by Joshua on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 5:01pmToday is a pinnacle day in the history of YouTube, as April 23, 2010 marks the five-year anniversary of YouTube’s very first uploaded video!
The video isn’t a showstopper, but it is a perfect example of what YouTube is all about. The video, shown below, stars YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego zoo.
YouTube, much like the elephants shown in Jawed’s video, is a mammoth Internet platform. YouTube is the third most visited website on all of the Internet, only behind Google, YouTube’s parent company, and Facebook, the web’s premiere social networking platform.
In the beginning stages of YouTube’s infancy, the site harnessed 25 million views per day in 2006, jumped to 100 million views per day in 2007, and in 2009, the site reached 1 billion video views per day!» Read more
