Episode Details

Have you ever wondered how your favorite website for watching funny animal videos, gaming streams, and cool science experiments got its start? Join hosts Mira and Finn on History's Not Boring as we travel back in time to the year 2005! Back then, sharing a video on the internet was actually incredibly hard to do. But three friends had a big idea to change that. They filmed a simple, 19-second video of some elephants at the San Diego Zoo and uploaded it to their brand new website. It became the first-ever YouTube video! At first, nobody thought their little video-sharing website would actually work. But guess what? Just 20 months later, the giant tech company Google bought YouTube for a mind-blowing 1.65 billion dollars! Today, people upload over 500 hours of new video every single minute! From a silly, short clip of zoo animals to the way the entire world watches almost everything, the story of YouTube is totally amazing! Grab your headphones and hit play to discover how a quick trip to the zoo changed the internet forever!