The first published video on the YouTube video platform is exactly 20 years old.
The very first video was uploaded to the platform on April 23, 2005, and is called Me at the Zoo.
This short video, lasting only 18 seconds, shows one of YouTube’s founders, Javed Karim, at the San Diego Zoo.
Since its publication, the video has been viewed more than 356 million times, and users have left more than 10 million comments.
According to the statistical service Similar Web, YouTube is the second most visited website in the world.
The video platform is second only to Google. Over the past month, the video hosting was visited more than 29 billion times.
Today, YouTube is on the market in most of the countries in the world, except for a few select countries.
They block access to it for various reasons, which are usually related to censorship and freedom of speech.
Among such countries are Iran, which has repeatedly blocked and reopened access to the resource, Russia, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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