Seven years ago Monday, YouTube loaded its first video, the 19-second “Me At the Zoo.”
The video, which features YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, was uploaded by employee Yakov Lapitsky on this date in 2005. Aesthetically, it’s nothing special: Lapisky merely notes that elephants have “really, really long trunks, and that’s cool.”
Technologically, though,...
