When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ...

At least, that's when three former PayPal employees – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – got together and decided on a name: YouTube. As Karim later explained in an early re-telling of ...

Jawed Karim posted the first-ever video on YouTube titled 'Me at the zoo.' Posted on April 23, 2005, the video has over 221 million views. Karim is one of the three co-founders of YouTube.

When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, they made it a dating site. That explains why they registered the youtube.com domain name on Feb. 14 exactly 20 years ago.

The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to attract users, so they created YouTube's first video themselves. The clip, titled "Me at the zoo," featured Karim at the ...