YouTube Turns 20 Today: These Are Its 10 Most Viewed Music Videos

On April 23, 2005, Jawed Karim posted the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, the website he co-founded with two friends a couple of months prior. The 19-second “Me at the zoo” is brief and innocuous enough that you likely wouldn’t guess what inspired Karim to build a video-sharing site after his former PayPal coworkers, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, initially pitched starting a new venture together: Janet Jackson had a “wardrobe malfunction” during the previous year’s Super Bowl...

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