Twenty years ago, three former PayPal employees activated the domain name "YouTube.com." The first YouTube video followed soon after.
YouTube turns 20 years old today toggle caption Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe Twenty years ago, three former PayPal employees launched YouTube.com, originally intended as a dating website with the slogan "Tune In, Hook Up." 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 San Diego Zoo. "Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005. YouTube In doing so, they built a platform where anyone with an internet connection could upload and watch videos. What did people do…