YouTube is 17 years old today and it is the first and most prominent video on the platform.

YouTube, the video platform to this day, is celebrating as it accomplishes a colossal 17 yearsand little for those who left.

This platform, whose first video dates back to 2005, undergone an evolution worthy of study, which, in turn, has changed the consumption of content around the world, making it possible to enjoy it from any device with Internet access, which is not at all easy.

One Sunday, 17 years ago, Karim, the co-founder of YouTube, posted a video just 19 seconds titled “I’m at the Zoo” in which he comments on elephants’ trunks.

This video, like all uploaded in those early days of the platform, has neither circulation nor quality, if not more. simple saved video with an interface adapted to its viewing.

We cannot say the same about the videos currently dominating this platform where anyone can upload all the videos they want. The level that YouTube managed to create filled its video platform with the highest quality and editingand it transcended unexpected limits.

Of course, Karim never expected the platform to be as successful and widespread as the platform he co-founded but is no longer a part of today. So much so that the video is now 228 million viewsand received 11 million comments.

A few months after the release of this first video on the platform and in November 2005 was officially launched worldwide..

By then, Karim had already left YouTube to study computer science at Stanford University, although he received tens of millions of dollars worth of stock when Google decided to acquire the company for 1,650 million euros.

Since this acquisition was made, the platform has not stopped growing to the point where became a jobthanks to ads for many content creators who use their platform to share videos in an endless range of categories.

So much so that today we can find people who live it and base their content on video games, technology, TV series, music, science, sports… There is no video on this platform that does not have its own home..

As interesting details of this platform, for example, commenting that in November 2005, the same year that the platform was released, Nike advertising in collaboration with Ronaldinho became the first ever video to reach over a million views on YouTube.

It was in 2012 when Gangnam Style became the first video to cross a billion views, the music video for a famous South Korean song, signaling that music would take over the top of the platform.

And so much so that the 30 most viewed videos in history all music videosAnd the fact is that YouTube creates incredible traction for them, where there is no artist who does not upload content on a regular basis due to its large reach. Just comment that video number 30 in this list has 3 billion viewsbillions!

The top three includes the children’s song Baby Shark Dance, which whopping 10.48 billion views. It is followed by Despacito, a song by Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee, which came in second with 7.81 billion hits. And closes the top three Joni Joni Da Papa, again a children’s song, with 6.31 billion visits.

These numbers are scary to read, but they are a vivid picture of where the platform has gotten to and where it still doesn’t seem to be finished as the number of users and the traffic it generates continues to grow. .