First video
Jawad Karim, co-founder of YouTube, uploads the first video to the site. The video features him in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
Founded
YouTube is created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who met as employees at Paypal:
When we registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005, we set out to create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the world.