EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style.
A new exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London captures the moment YouTube was born more than 20 years ago.
“The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim,” a V&A spokesperson said.
The reconstruction of the early YouTube watch page features the first-ever upload entitled “Me at the zoo,” showing then-25-year-old YouTube co-founder Karim at San Diego Zoo talking about elephants. The 19-second clip has been viewed 382 million times and received more than 18 million likes since it…