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19 sec
YouTube’s first uploaded video was “Me at the zoo,” a 19-second clip posted on 23 April 2005. It shows co-founder Jawed Karim speaking in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
1991
The camera widely remembered as the first webcam watched a coffee pot at Cambridge in 1991, initially over a local network. It became accessible through the World Wide Web in November 1993.
1964
The first mouse prototype in Douglas Engelbart’s research program was built in 1964 with a wooden body. Engineer Bill English constructed the device, which tracked movement using two perpendicular wheels.