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YouTube’s First Video Upload Turns 20 Years Old

Let’s celebrate two decades of YouTube by looking back at the history of the video-sharing site and how it changed the world of media and entertainment. Subscribe to all of our YouTube channels! CNET How To Do It All PCMag Mashable Lifehacker 0:00 Intro 0:32 A Look Back at 2005 1:22 The First Video Published…

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Let’s celebrate two decades of YouTube by looking back at the history of the video-sharing site and how it changed the world of media and entertainment.

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0:00 Intro
0:32 A Look Back at 2005
1:22 The First Video Published on YouTube
2:36 The Number of Videos Uploaded to YouTube
3:29 How To and Educational Videos
3:59 YouTube Streaming
4:52 YouTube TV
5:13 YouTube Music and Music Videos
5:43 YouTube Live and Gaming
6:06 YouTube Podcasts
6:43 YouTube Kids
7:05 Dillon’s Conclusion

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  1. @angelscarreviews6094

    April 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Happy 20th anniversary YouTube! 2 decades ago since the first video was uploaded in 2005, also with tons of music and music videos. It has come a super long way and I cannot wait for next year of the 21st anniversary.

  2. @alyswurld

    April 23, 2025 at 1:02 pm

    Such a good overview with fun throwbacks to a lot of the OG vids I used to watch. Happy birthday, YouTube!

    PS this guy is cute, he should be in more vids

  3. @b3n_ketchup586

    April 23, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    4 million subs and 4,000 views in 5 hours is crazy

  4. @Bennolanswaggerdiapeeteen

    April 23, 2025 at 1:50 pm

    I wasn’t even born yet in 2005. I was borne in 2007. July 14

    • @developerAndreYTs

      April 23, 2025 at 9:15 pm

      I was born April 14th 2011, so I’m definitely young

  5. @MoaoidKőfej

    April 23, 2025 at 1:54 pm

    I kinda feel… mixed.

  6. @hydrobolix3365

    April 23, 2025 at 2:12 pm

    o m g

  7. @t3truedesigns

    April 23, 2025 at 2:13 pm

    mine was chocolate rain

  8. @hydrobolix3365

    April 23, 2025 at 2:14 pm

    I think YouTube has to delete Norfner channels to keep the Norf strong. Norfners don’t run on earned income.

  9. @Andrew-hi2rj

    April 23, 2025 at 2:55 pm

    Charlie bit my finger… first YouTube video I watched

  10. @kilo-303

    April 23, 2025 at 3:00 pm

    Smosh hello

  11. @noahgarwood4379

    April 23, 2025 at 3:34 pm

    <3

  12. @urbanstrencan

    April 23, 2025 at 3:48 pm

    YouTube the best social platform out there happy 20th anniversary 🤟🤟🤟🥂🥂🥂

  13. @brianpainting2947

    April 23, 2025 at 4:19 pm

    The editing on this video is incredible!

  14. @JJONNYREPP

    April 23, 2025 at 4:41 pm

    bravo youtube

  15. @slabielava

    April 23, 2025 at 4:48 pm

    Actually, i found out at some point last year that ” me at the zoo ” isn’t actually the first Youtube video .

    • @terabyte994

      April 23, 2025 at 6:19 pm

      com test is fake, Welcome to youtube is also fake. whats next?

  16. @AlmightyWavyy

    April 23, 2025 at 4:58 pm

    I was 17 years old turning 18 on April 29th 2006. Lol yea I’m old now.

  17. @tfdxstudios1265

    April 23, 2025 at 5:21 pm

    We have all reached unc status.

  18. @Russia_Moscow_countryhuman

    April 23, 2025 at 5:36 pm

    2:38 dankpods on CNET!

  19. @pussnbootsxL

    April 23, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    wow how it’s changed. now a censorship central site

  20. @CherryNah

    April 23, 2025 at 5:51 pm

    I started visiting YT in 2006 too.
    An anime AMV i used to have at my pc of Kiss by Rose 😂 was the first thing I saw here.

    The only thing I don’t like about the nowadays YT is the difficulty to search things and the amount of loss media we have through all this time (and Ads , obviously lol)

  21. @longstrike7795

    April 23, 2025 at 6:03 pm

    Wow… 20 years of YouTube. I still remember turning on my computer at my grandmother’s house at the end of 2006—just a year after this platform launched. It blows my mind that it’s been 19 years since then. I remember my first Rick Roll like it was yesterday. Watching this video fills me with so much nostalgia. Some of the creators and clips in here genuinely feel like they helped raise me. I grew up with Thomas the Tank Engine videos, dancing to Crazy Frog, and diving into the weird, wonderful world of early YouTube. 2006 was such a great year. Time really does fly… and somehow YouTube’s been there the whole way.

  22. @gc3k

    April 23, 2025 at 6:23 pm

    This is giving me flashbacks of clunky online media options from the latter 2000s. You tube, Justin TV, Ustream, Last FM, Veetle, Deezer etc. We’ve come a long way since then

  23. @peter-b-2889

    April 23, 2025 at 7:12 pm

    My favorite youtube rescue story (circa ~2008 ) my friend had removed the wires from the distributor cap of his car, not realizing they had to be reconnected in the same order. Youtube can fix this I thought… and yes, somebody somewhere uploaded a video of engine work done on the same model of car, and that revealed the order of the wires.

  24. @phoebemelchor

    April 23, 2025 at 8:17 pm

    i feel so old

  25. @KervaMaster199X

    April 23, 2025 at 8:45 pm

    YouTube University 🎓

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