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YouTube's first video turns 20
Millennials, brace yourselves. YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0.
Twenty years on, the video showing Karim in front of an elephant exhibit at the San Diego Zoo has more than 355 million views. Karim, along with co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, sold the platform to Google for $1.65 billion the following year.Since the mid-2000s, YouTube has become a pop culture juggernaut. Twenty years on, the video showing Karim in front of an elephant exhibit at the San Diego Zoo has more than 355 million views.
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