It was on this day in 2005 when the first video was uploaded to YouTube. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005 at 4:27:12 PDT by the site's co-founder Jawed Karim, with the username "jawed" and recorded by his high school friend Yakov Lapitsky. The 18-second video, entitled "Me at the zoo," features Karim at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of a bunch of elephants.