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CD Now beat Amazon by a few months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNow But you're right, Amazon was basically there at the
by yellowstuff 9y ago
CD Now beat Amazon by a few months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDNow
But you're right, Amazon was basically there at the beginning of online retail. A better example is YouTube. Many online video sharing sites had started and died years before YouTube was a gleam in Janet Jackson's pasty http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-...
- duderific 9y agoI think YouTube hit the right combination of UI and network speed improvements. Before that, either the UI was glitchy or the average person's network speed was too slow to stream video usefully.
- chubot 9y agoAlso, I believe the only way to deliver that content to a wide variety of browsers at the time was Flash. In fact Adobe/Macromedia may have only added the video functionality in the prior 5 years or so, so before that I think you couldn't even do it without making people install a plugin. Remember this was well before Chrome came out, and Firefox was still nascent. So a lot of people were using IE. I think Flash was already starting to fall out of fashion by then, but they realized there was a valuable technology deployed in it (video codecs).