9
Years Later, YouTube's First Video Is Too
Real for
This Internet
On April 23, 2005, Jawed Karim uploaded an 18-second
Video to a site called
YouTube that he helped create. We'll get back to that
Video shortly, but let's take a minute to think about what nine
Years means in the digital age
The web was a very different place. The title of "social media maven/guru/ninja" was just a twinkle in some charlatan's eye
Twitter was still about a year away from existence, and an early iteration of the
Facebook we **w k**w was just gaining traction on college campuses
Heck, we had yet to meet the ubiquitous viral
Video back in April 2005. And online media had yet to suffer through many hard
Years before discovering the life-giving secrets of the listicle, heartwarming advertisement and fatuous cat video. In short, the social explosion had yet to make the web the —
Epic! Unbelievable! Shocking! — look-at-me, click-on-this cacophony it is today
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