“Video Killed the Radio Star” will forever be intertwined with the launch of MTV, cementing its place in history as the first video aired on the fledgling network. But that wasn't MTV’s first choice.

YouTube just celebrated its 20th anniversary. It's quite surreal to see that a platform now home to over 20 trillion videos started with a 19-second clip. The first video uploaded to YouTube, which ...

Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0.It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo" to his ...

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