Exactly twenty years ago, the first video was published on YouTube

Even in our time, the promise of some technological discoveries is not immediately realized. Let us recall, for example, that many businessmen and even inventors did not believe in any global prospects for the development of computers.

Judging by the first ever video uploaded to YouTube by its co-founder Jawed Karim on April 24, 2005 at 20:27 Pacific time and filmed by his friend Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, they also did not realize the importance of the moment.

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"Okay, so here we are in front of elephants, and the cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that's, that's cool, and that's all there is to it," was all that came to Karim's mind.