Me at the Zoo was uploaded on 23 April 2005 by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim and is recognised as the first video ever published on the platform. Filmed at the San Diego Zoo, it shows Karim talking briefly about elephants in front of their enclosure. The clip was shot by Yakov Lapitsky on a casual visit and was never intended as entertainment. As YouTube grew into a global platform, the video became a historical artefact, frequently replayed in documentaries, anniversaries and retrospectives about the birth of online video.
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Audio from Me at the Zoo, the first video ever uploaded to YouTube in 2005, featuring Jawed Karim talking about elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
This is the spoken audio from the first video ever posted to YouTube, recorded at the San Diego Zoo. Jawed Karim stands in front of the elephant enclosure and delivers a short, deadpan introduction about the animals and their long trunks. The recording is low quality, casual and unscripted, with zoo ambience behind his voice. That ordinariness is the point, and hearing it instantly signals internet history, nostalgia and the start of online video culture for anyone who recognises the clip.