Still, a billion views a day is nothing to say over. YouTube has come a long way in a short time -- evolving much, you might say, like shown in its .

YouTube: The Beginning

YouTube entered the world cold, naked, and confused in April of 2005. That's when the service's , a frank and engaging discussion of elephants, surfaced on the site.

The guy seen in the clip is Jawed Karim, one of three fellas involved in YouTube's founding. He and his cohorts met while they were all working at PayPal. One of them even designed PayPal's now-ubiquitous logo.

As the story goes, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley -- the other two dudes -- got a burst of inspiration when they realized how tough it was to share videos they'd shot at a dinner party. They started chatting, they say, and came up with the concept of a site that'd make casual video-sharing quick and easy.