Funily enough, I emailed my great Aunt a video around about 1998 of a gorilla scratching its bum, sniffing its finger, and dramtically falling off a tree. I was using Clifton school's one internet connected computer which had "super fast" ISDN. Unfortunately I added a few other attachments, the earliest examples of memes, and it took many hours to download on their slower dial up connection - and probably at great cost.
Where did I say youtube was around in 1997? I said video was around then, not YouTube. I'm glad you're actually making an effort even if it is to try and catch me out, but you really need to read properly if you don't want to embarass yourself.