Here are the first ever YouTube videos: Top 10 oldest YouTube videos

YouTube has come a long way since it first launched back in 2005. With more than 1.3 billion videos in its archives, and its biggest stars earning six-figure salaries, it’s evolved into one of the most powerful social media platforms around.

And it all started with a trip to the zoo...

Here are the first 10 videos ever published to YouTube.

1. 'Me at the Zoo', Jawed Karim - April 23, 2005

2. 'My Snowboarding Skillz', MW - April 23, 2005

3. 'Tribute', GP - April 24, 2005

4. 'Premature Baldness', Paul - April 28, 2005

5. 'Carrie Rides a Truck', Jones4Carrie - April 30, 2005

6. 'Cybergoon Squad', Greg - May 2, 2005

7. 'Vernal Lullaby', Adam Quirk - May 2, 2005

8. 'Pajamas and Nick Drake', Steve - May 22, 2005

9. 'First Back Flip on YouTube!', Cobaltgruv - May 24, 2005

10. 'Stadion Bayen Munchen', Dominoes - June 13, 2005

The first ever YouTube video was posted on April 23, 2005. Just 18 seconds long and filmed on a grainy camera, the clip features Jawed Karim – one of YouTube’s founders – discussing the length of an elephant’s trunk at San Diego Zoo. Amazingly, it has more than 90 million views.

“Alright so here we are in front of the elephants,” a young Karim tells the camera. “The cool thing about these guys is that they have, um, really, really, really long trunks, and that’s cool. And that’s pretty much all there is to say.”

Hot on the tails of Me at the Zoo was a clip that would go on to pave the way for YouTube's many, many "fail" videos. Entitled My Snowboarding Skillz – the z really placing it firmly in that Noughties era – this 10-second clip, also published on April 23, 2005, shows that uploader MW's snowboarding skills are almost as good as the camera quality.

The third video to be uploaded to YouTube, on April