Vator (Oct. 5) -- YouTube.com" was created on February 15, 2005 by UI alumni Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, along with Chad Hurley who were all early employees of PayPal.The first YouTube video, uploaded on April 23, 2005, was called Me at the zoo, an 18 second long video with Karim, at the San Diego Zoo, talking about elephants. It has been viewed 33.7 million times.