Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:35am on 27 Feb 2026,Friday International
The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in South Kensington is displaying a reconstruction of YouTube's original 2005 watchpage, built using internet archives from December 2006. The museum has also acquired Me at the Zoo, the very first video uploaded to YouTube by co-founder Jawed Karim in April 2005. The 19-second clip, filmed on a digital camera, has amassed nearly 380 million views and 18 million likes. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan called it "the beginning of a global cultural phenomenon." Senior curator Corinna Gardner described the acquisition as an "important moment in internet history." A mini display at V&A East Storehouse will further explore the reconstruction process. Previous digital acquisitions include WeChat and Flappy Bird. (PC: BBC)
