The first YouTube video was uploaded nine years ago today, and
it involves a goat.   YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim posted the
inaugural video, simply titled “Me at the Zoo,” at 8:27pm on
Saturday, April 23, 2005. It was shot at the San Diego Zoo,
where Karim explains the trunks of elephants at the zoo, and
then we hear a goat call out. It’s almost as if that goat knows
one day, roughly a decade in the future, goats will basically
run YouTube.  The man who shot the video, Yakov Lapitsky, went
on to be a professor of chemical and environmental engineering.
He claimed he "had no idea what he was getting myself into." 
The video currently has 14 million views, and 7,500 dislikes.
H/T Time Illustration by Jason Reed