YouTube has turned 10 on Thursday April 23,2015

 

It’s been 10 years since Jawed Karim -- the man behind the concept of the video sharing site -- uploaded the first ever video of his zoo visit on the website

Jawed Karim co-founded YouTube with former PayPal employees Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

The then 25 year-old posted the 19-second clip titled "Me at the Zoo" on April 23, 2005, which was filmed at San Diego Zoo's elephant enclosure

The unassuming video in praise of elephants, marked the humble beginnings of the third most-popular website on the planet

Ten years on, it has become an essential tool for marketing and promotion allowing users to upload, view, and share videos

Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for a whopping $1.65 billion in stock

Today, YouTube has 800 million unique users a month and 300 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, three times more than in 2014