10th Anniversary of YouTube
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10th Anniversary of YouTube
They didn’t have much to say about the elephants that day at the San Diego Zoo, in 2005, but the images that Yakov Lapitsky and his friends recorded were worth thousands and thousands of words.
Turned out, they were making the first-ever YouTube video and their efforts amounted to one of the most consequential moments in Internet history.
Lapitsky, now a chemical and environmental engineering professor at the University of Toledo, doesn’t recall much about that day, but when a friend handed him a digital camera and he pressed “record,” he was unwittingly participating in an experiment that would change the world.
University of Toledo professor Yakov Lapitsky has the honor of shooting the first-ever YouTube video, though he had no idea what the website was at the time.
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University of Toledo professor Yakov Lapitsky has the honor of shooting the first-ever YouTube video, though he had no idea what the website was at the time.
“It’s neat, but I don’t think that much of it,” Lapitsky told the Daily News.
His friend was Jawed Karim and their video, titled“Me at the Zoo,”became the first ever uploaded to YouTube, on April 23, 2005. It has since been viewed more than 17 million times.
Karim and two colleagues then working at PayPal, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, had registered domain name www.YouTube.com on Feb. 14, 2005.
Lapitsky, then a doctoral student at the University of Delaware, doesn’t recall when he first learned about his friend’s venture. At the time, he had no idea that the site, as everybody now knows, would revolutionize the way videos could be shown online. In many ways, YouTube revolutionized the entire entertainment industry.
“I didn’t think much of it other than it was pretty adorable,” the 34-year-old said.
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YouTube launched its experimental site in May, and officially launched six months later. Within a year it was sold to Google for $1.5 billion.
Many people didn’t even have the capability to stream video at the time, but technology was becoming more widespread and the site’s growth was rapid.
By July 20, 2006, YouTube reported one million viewers per month, who were watching more than 100 million videos per day on the site, the company said.
YouTube quickly dominated the market for online videos, accounting for 60% of all videos watched online, according to news reports at the time.
It’s neat, but I don’t think that much of it.
And its growth over the years has been staggering.
The site now boasts 1 billion unique users who watch more than 6 billion hours of video each month, the company said. Every passing minute means another 100 hours of video was uploaded to the website.
The three founders are no longer with the company and did not return messages seeking comment. Chen is now an entrepreneur in residence at Google Ventures, Hurley founded the video editing company MixBit and Karim is a founder and partner at Y Ventures, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto,Calif.
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim stars in the video ‘Me at the Zoo,’ which was the first one uploaded onto the website on April 23, 2005. The 19-second video was shot by his friend Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo.
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YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim stars in the video ‘Me at the Zoo,’ which was the first one uploaded onto the website on April 23, 2005. The 19-second video was shot by his friend Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo.
YouTube will officially celebrate its 10th anniversary in May — and its evolution, business-wise and creatively, since that initial trip to the zoo has been nothing less than staggering.
The earliest videos on YouTube give only a hint of its seemingly unlimited dimensions and possibilities as both a repository and a forum for creativity expression.
The site would be a godsend to a excited group of people with a passion for making videos. Though the first batch of content on the site was definitely crude by today’s standards, their creators were ecstatic to finally have a means of sharing their work on a worldwide scale.
In the site’s first week, Adam Quirk, then 25, posted a video, “Vernal Lullaby,” recorded in his Hoboken neighborhood.
Quirk, who now lives in Bloomington, Ind., said he loved to make videos but his audience was limited to a 100-person Internet forum on Yahoo.
He first heard about the new venture when he attended a presentation by Hurley, at the Apple store in SoHo, in which they shot and uploaded a video. The co-founder wasn’t presenting his billion dollar idea as “this is going to change the world” but more that he was excited there was this neat tool.
“It kind of blew us away,” Quirk said. “The videos just went straight up there to YouTube. It was pretty big for me.”
Quirk’s own production didn’t exactly go viral — it now has only 17,000 views — but when he saw the excitement of others on his Yahoo video forum, he knew YouTube was going to be big.
Indiana resident Adam Quirk was one of YouTube’s first creators. Ten years later he is now opening up a craft distillery in Indiana.
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Indiana resident Adam Quirk was one of YouTube’s first creators. Ten years later he is now opening up a craft distillery in Indiana.
Quirk, who made videos for companies professionally for a few years and is now opening a craft distillery, said it was exciting to be able to share his work so easily, but he knew changes were ahead.
“It was kind of bittersweet,” he said. “When other people started doing it, it was cool to see the idea of a personal video spreading. But I also felt like it was not ours anymore.”
