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YOUTUBE'S first-ever video was uploaded 15 years ago today – on April 23, 2005.
It was a clip posted by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, marking the beginning of the website's rapid and unstoppable rise to internet dominance.
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The video is titled "Me at the zoo", and is geo-tagged to San Diego.
In the clip, Karim gives a short speech to camera in very low video quality by today's standards.
He's standing in a zoo talking about elephants, who can be seen in the background.
Karim says: "Alright, so here we are in front of the elephants.
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"The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks.
"And that's, that's cool."
It might not sound like much, but it's an important part of internet history.
YouTube's inaugural video has now been viewed more than 90.2million times.
It's received nearly 3million likes and has racked up more around 5.3million comments.
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Karim met fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley while working at PayPal.
The trio went on to create YouTube, although Karim was officially an adviser to the site – rather than being an employee.
He remained relatively unknown until Google purchased YouTube in 2006.
Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, which was worth roughly $64million at the time.
YouTube has since snowballed to become one of the internet's biggest websites.
Last year, it turned over $15billion, with more than 500 hours of content uploaded every minute.
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