Jeremy Norman’sHistoryofInformation.com Exploring the History of Information and Media through Timelines
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A: San Diego, California, United States
The first video uploaded to YouTube—on April 23, 2005— was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. It showed co-founder Jawed Karim in front of the elephant enclosure "going on about long trunks."
By Feburary 2011 this brief video had been viewed 4,282,497 times.
