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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: The creation of YouTube
Description: An 18-second clip of a young man standing in front of an elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo in California, describing their “really long trunks” was the first video to be posted onto YouTube in April 2005.It was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim, who with friends Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, cooked up the idea for the video-sharing service while working together at PayPal.Twenty years later, it is now available in 100 countries and has almost three billion users around the world.Produced and presented by Reena Stanton-Sharma using archive interviews.Eye...