The official date of birth of the YouTube service is February 14, 2005, but the first video appeared there a little later, namely April 23. Here she is:
This video captures one Jacob Lapitski against a cage with elephants in a zoo in the city of San Diego. The video was shot by one of YouTube’s creators , Javed Karim. ')
It is noteworthy that in those days, YouTube positioned itself as a video dating site, which can be clearly seen from the cast of the web archive of those times .
Who knew what all this will result in a few years.