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First YouTube Video and Watchpage on Display at Victoria & Albert Museum
The museum's display features YouTube's first video, viewed nearly 380 million times, highlighting early digital design and the evolution of online video sharing.
- The V&A has acquired a reconstructed 2005 YouTube watchpage and the first upload, Me at the zoo, now on display in the Design 1900-Now gallery at V&A South Kensington.
- Using archived timestamps, the V&A digital conservation team spent 18 months reconstructing the platform's design from 8 December 2006 with YouTube's UX team and oio, London studio.
- The 19-second clip Me at the zoo was uploaded on April 23, 2005 and has been viewed 382 million times with more than 18 million likes.
- The V&A says the acquisition opens new storytelling opportunities, with Neal Mohan stating `By reconstructing an early watchpage, we aren’t just showing a video; we are inviting the public to step back in time to the beginning of a global, cultural phenomenon.`
- The acquisition builds on earlier digital picks including WeChat, Flappy Bird, EUKI and the mosquito emoji, highlighting early user-interface conventions that became standard across platforms.
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«Me at the zoo»: The Victoria and Albert Museum acquires the first YouTube video from 2005.
The world's first YouTube video has become a museum exhibit. The Victoria and Alberta Museum (V&A) in London has acquired the historic video, which it is presenting in a reconstructed form, in the platform's early design. The 19-second video shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, then 25, at the San Diego Zoo. Standing in front of the animals, Karim talks about how elephants have very long trunks. The video, uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been v…
The film “Me at the Zoo” was uploaded to the platform in 2005.
A new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London captures the time when YouTube was born more than 20 years ago. “The V&A acquired a reconstruction of an early website and the first video uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim,” said a V&A spokesperson. The reconstruction of the old YouTube playback page presents the first load entitled “Me at the zoo”, which shows the then co-founder of YouTube, Karim, 25 years old…
YouTube’s first ever video upload acquired by Victoria and Albert Museum in London
By Gareth Harris (CNN) — A new exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London captures the moment YouTube was born more than 20 years ago. “The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim,” a V&A spokesperson said. The reconstruction of the early YouTube watch page features the first-ever upload entitled “Me at the zoo,” showing then-25-year-old YouTube co-…
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