Where was the first YouTube video filmed?

"Me at the Zoo" is the first-ever video that was uploaded to YouTube. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005 at 20:27:12 PDT (April 24, 2005 at 3:27:12UTC) by the site's co-founder Jawed Karim, with the username "jawed" and recorded by his high school friend Yakov Lapitsky.

He created an account on YouTube the same day.

The nineteen-second video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo, featuring Karim in front of the elephants in their old exhibit in Elephant Mesa, professing his interest in their "really, really, really long trunks".

In 2013, the video description was updated in protest of Google+ and two annotations were added to the video.

On the tenth anniversary of YouTube in 2015, the description was changed to "The first video on YouTube. Maybe it's time to go back to the zoo?" On October 11, 2016, he added "The name of the music playing in the background is the single 'Sandstorm' released in 1999, as the first single from Before the Storm, by Finnish DJ and music producer Darude" to the description. As of March 2017, this description has been altered to "The name of the music playing in the background is Darude - Sandstorm."