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WATCH: This is the first-ever YouTube video posted 16 years ago

Elephant at the San Diego Zoo
Bryon Houlgrave/The Register, Des Moines Register via Imagn Content Services, LLC

The first video to ever be posted on YouTube is celebrating its sixteenth anniversary.

Fox 40 shared this video of Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo, in which he talks about the elephants. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005. Karim is one of YouTube's co-founders.


One year after the video was posted, Karim and his co-founders, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion.

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