Time is an illusion, first-ever YouTube video turns 15

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Let’s rewind to simpler times, back when TikTok was a sound a clock made and there were only four "Harry Potter" movies. In February 2005, three former Paypal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim — launched YouTube, . a platform they hoped would be the video equivalent to popular photo-sharing sites Photobucket and Flickr. On April 23, 2005, two months after YouTube was created and about a month before its public beta launch, . Karim posted an 18-second video called "Me at the zoo". Five months later, a Nike ad that had been posted on YouTube hit one million views. By the end of 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion. 26-year-old Karim’s grainy early vlog of his day at the San Diego Zoo now has over 90 million views