YouTube's First Video, Five Years Later 10.15K Richard Lawson 04/23/10 10:08AM Filed to: moments moments YouTube jawed karim The Internet Watersheds Today is the fifth anniversary of YouTube's first video upload. On April 23rd, 2005 at 8:27pm (a Saturday night—nerd!) this video of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim sparked an internet revolution. Fittingly for the site, he's at a zoo. [Mashabale]