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.
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.