YouTube was down for thousands of users in US
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The V&A museum has reconstructed an early YouTube watch page, showing the 19-second clip “Me at the zoo” from 2005.
The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
YouTube users were having trouble accessing the platform due to issues with the platform's recommendations system.
The original YouTube experience from 2005 has been recreated using internet archives.
YouTube’s very first video, ‘Me at the zoo,’ is being honored with an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
The outage caused a flood of users to report access problems for YouTube. The video-sharing platform has since traced the issue to its recommendations system.