A man in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo explains what he thinks about them.A man in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo explains what he thinks about them.A man in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo explains what he thinks about them.
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Jawed Karim
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- Jawed Karim(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis 19-second short video became the first-ever video that got uploaded to YouTube. The video was uploaded by the site's co-founder Jawed Karim under his nickname 'jawed'.
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Guy in the zoo: All right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants, and the cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that's, that's cool, and that's pretty much all there is to say.
Featured review
A star is born...the YouTube!
In less than one minute YouTube creator succeed it in making a video landmark. Simple, amusing and without a higher meaning than just be what the title says
it is, Jawed Karim delivered the vision of how future videos would become, much of what YouTube originally was and just a percentage of its porcentage: to present
ourselves to the world, as we are and with what we are doing that can be viewed as good or fun, simply from what it is and with a wide audience connected to their
services.
So, this is me writing about him at the zoo watching the elephants behind him. In almost two decades, "Me at the Zoo" has more than 7 million views, a huge part thanks for being the video plataform's first video ever; and another part because we are curious in seeing the origins of a phenomenon that changed the world, connect people in many ways and one of the best things on internet, surpassing the long kingdom of television for exclusive things to show. Main reason: just as the video, we can all contribute with something, to express ourselves without big budgets, people to interfere and control what we do - sure, there's the plataform's guidelines but they're there to define what's acceptable and what it's not, from copyrighted material use to prejudicial speech.
Jawed Karim's short is a curious sensation, an adorable and memorable video that offers us a truthful good moment of him visiting the zoo and admiring the elephants. Time and again, there are channels with false advertisiments, attractive titles that don't mean a thing, mere trolls just getting the views they want. With this short, Karim was merely making an experiment, seeing his creation would work and it's up to each viewer to see it for what it is. It's obvious he wouldn't show up with something too extraordinary (singing, doing magic tricks, or teaching how to cook, for example); it had to be a reflection of what he wanted to achieve with YouTube, and the most original one could get and just wait for future results, future creations and see how far we could go. With time our past, present and future would fill the place in an instant way and YouTube went a long ride from just one man at the zoo. As you read this, you've probably clicked on million of videos, watched a bunch and never seen how it all started...and when you click into it, there'll be 10-something seconds of a lovely delight.
Gets the most praise it can get due to its essential importance on internet's history. 10/10
So, this is me writing about him at the zoo watching the elephants behind him. In almost two decades, "Me at the Zoo" has more than 7 million views, a huge part thanks for being the video plataform's first video ever; and another part because we are curious in seeing the origins of a phenomenon that changed the world, connect people in many ways and one of the best things on internet, surpassing the long kingdom of television for exclusive things to show. Main reason: just as the video, we can all contribute with something, to express ourselves without big budgets, people to interfere and control what we do - sure, there's the plataform's guidelines but they're there to define what's acceptable and what it's not, from copyrighted material use to prejudicial speech.
Jawed Karim's short is a curious sensation, an adorable and memorable video that offers us a truthful good moment of him visiting the zoo and admiring the elephants. Time and again, there are channels with false advertisiments, attractive titles that don't mean a thing, mere trolls just getting the views they want. With this short, Karim was merely making an experiment, seeing his creation would work and it's up to each viewer to see it for what it is. It's obvious he wouldn't show up with something too extraordinary (singing, doing magic tricks, or teaching how to cook, for example); it had to be a reflection of what he wanted to achieve with YouTube, and the most original one could get and just wait for future results, future creations and see how far we could go. With time our past, present and future would fill the place in an instant way and YouTube went a long ride from just one man at the zoo. As you read this, you've probably clicked on million of videos, watched a bunch and never seen how it all started...and when you click into it, there'll be 10-something seconds of a lovely delight.
Gets the most praise it can get due to its essential importance on internet's history. 10/10
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- Rodrigo_Amaro
- Jul 9, 2020
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- ミー・アット・ザ・ズー
- Filming locations
- San Diego Zoo - 2920 Zoo Drive, San Diego, California, USA(San Diego Zoo)
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- Runtime1 minute
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- 4:3
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