First YouTube Video EVER Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary: Send Us Your Favorite Videos!

It's been a landmark week: we celebrated the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, and the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope.

April 23 marks a lesser known, but nonetheless important, event: the fifth anniversary of the first video uploaded to YouTube.

YouTube was founded February 14, 2005, but the first video to hit the site--a 19 second clip of YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim at the San Diego zoo--didn't come until April 23, 2005.

Check out the first-ever YouTube video below, then we want to hear from you: What is your favorite YouTube video ever? And why?

What is your favorite YouTube video? Share it with us and we'll feature it on HuffPostTech!

Your Favorite YouTube Video

 

Click participate, upload a link to the YouTube video (or the embed code for the video), then click submit! Feel free to include a description of why you love the video, if you'd like.

WATCH: (via Mashable)

Comments

[Gronkie]

09:53 AM on 04/26/2010

So what I got out of this is that after five years, most YouTube videos are still as boring and pointless as the first one.

[sherwoodfamily]

08:11 PM on 04/25/2010

I can't get over it's only 5 years old!

[Mark Whittington]

02:25 AM on 04/25/2010

wait; Youtube has only been around for 5 YEARS? lol

[PlayTOE]

02:57 PM on 04/24/2010

You Tube itself turned out to be quite an elephant. (with a really really long trunk)

[AngusC]

02:06 PM on 04/24/2010

I love Youtube.
One of the greatest inventions ever.

[EvieEve]

12:48 PM on 04/24/2010

My favorite You Tube video will forever be, Scarlett Takes a Tumble.

[OKSunny]

10:40 AM on 04/24/2010

it was ONLY five years ago? wow

[patrickmcdougal]

10:34 AM on 04/24/2010

I don't think Henryle74 like Youtube at all

[derekc06]

01:58 PM on 04/24/2010

haha

[Dixiebluebell]

09:37 AM on 04/24/2010

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!!!!

[Alice215]

08:21 AM on 04/24/2010

Kitlers!

[henryle74]

05:28 AM on 04/24/2010

Has anybody seen these old 80's instructional videos or other old stuff like burger commercials from the 70's, etc. That stuff is hilarious. A couple yrs ago I saw this clip of a new employee training video from MCDonald's that I think was from the late 70's or early 80's. It was so super cheesy and the guy made it seem like working at MCDonald's was the job of a lifetime. The announcer guy was so super serious about how employees are part of the MCDonald's "family" and all this stuff. It was so lame it was funny.

[henryle74]

05:21 AM on 04/24/2010

I like the funny clips of animals and weird stuff (like old stuff from the 80s) but a lot of it is junk. I mean honestly does anyone really want to watch somebody's lame wedding video (unless somebody falls down or passes out or something) but otherwise unless something outrageous happens, attention america, we do not know your kids and could care less about their spelling bee, soccer game, etc. Unless your kid falls on his face while running the wrong way down the court, do not post that stuff. It is boring. Your kids are not as fascinating as you think they are.

[henryle74]

05:15 AM on 04/24/2010

It is an amazing time waster (in a good way). You click on a funny clip and then right there are suggestions for others and you click on those and the next thing you know an hr. has gone by. Employers are on to you tube. My employer blocks you tube and facebook. :-(

[henryle74]

05:13 AM on 04/24/2010

Just curious. Umm, why is America's home funniest videos still on TV since we have you tube? I guess it's you tube on TV for folks who don't want to take the time to search out awesome clips and want to be spoon fed what TV execs think is funny. AFHV had its time in the 90s but with internet, it really should be cancelled.

[henryle74]

05:09 AM on 04/24/2010

second favorite: David after Dentist. Third: kitten playing peekaboo.