一則視頻與YouTube的誕生

“我們現(xiàn)在位于大象前面。”

It’s a phrase that you probably don’t recognize, but it helped launch a platform that you probably do: YouTube.

你可能不會知道這句話的出處，但它幫助推出了一個你可能知道的平臺：YouTube。

Thirteen years ago today, one of the video-sharing site’s co-founders, Jawed Karim, published its first clip: a brief video of himself at the San Diego Zoo.

13年前的今天，這家視頻分享網(wǎng)站的共同創(chuàng)始人之一賈韋德·卡里姆(Jawed Karim)發(fā)布了其首個視頻：他在圣地亞哥動物園的一小段畫面。

YouTube now has over a billion users who consume a billion hours of video each day. With five billion views, the music video for “Despacito” is the most-watched video on YouTube. (Here's a full list.)

如今，YouTube有著10億多用戶，他們每天觀看10億小時的視頻。《Despacito》這首歌以50億點擊率成為了YouTube上觀看次數(shù)最多的視頻(這里是完整排名)。

People can watch Tom Cruise jump off Oprah Winfrey’s couch on repeat; laugh at a baby biting his brother’s finger; and relive the world’s introduction to the singer Susan Boyle.

人們能夠不斷重復(fù)觀看湯姆·克魯斯(Tom Cruise)跳上奧普拉·溫弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)的沙發(fā);對著一個寶寶咬哥哥手指的視頻大笑;還能重溫這個世界對歌手蘇珊·博伊爾(Susan Boyle)的介紹。

YouTube, now owned by Google, was dreamed up by Mr. Karim and two other former PayPal employees. They were initially depressed by YouTube’s content: “There’s not that many videos I’d want to watch,” one lamented.

如今為谷歌(Google)所有的YouTube，設(shè)想源自卡里姆及另外兩名前PayPal員工。他們起初對YouTube上的東西感到很不滿意：“沒多少我想看的視頻，”其中一人感嘆道。

The trip to the zoo was one of those videos.

這個動物園之旅就是那些視頻之一。

“The cool thing about these guys is they have really, really, really long trunks and that’s cool,” Mr. Karim says in the 19-second video, which has more than 48 million views. “And that’s pretty much all there is to say.”

“這些家伙很酷的地方就是它們有著很長很長很長的鼻子，這很酷，”卡里姆在那條19秒的視頻中說，該視頻獲得了超過4800萬點擊率。“我們能說的就這些”。