On August 23, 2005, a 26-year-old named Jawed Karim uploaded a video of his visit to the elephant enclosure in a San Diego zoo on a brand new website. Elephants have “really, really, really long trunks”, he says in the 19-second-long clip, before ending with, “and that’s pretty much all there is to say”. But for the over 2 billion users who would, over the next two decades, log in to YouTube — as the website was christened, Karim was a co-founder — there was........

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