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It was mentioned in a private email that the only reason YouTube exists is that Google's servers happens to have a lot of free disk space in the days before SSD

by yuhong 8y ago

It was mentioned in a private email that the only reason YouTube exists is that Google's servers happens to have a lot of free disk space in the days before SSDs.

lbearl 8y ago
YouTube was a separate company acquired by Google in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
- yuhong 8y ago
  Yep, I mean YouTube existing within Google obviously.
cortesoft 8y ago
Is the limiting factor for youtube really disk space? I would imagine it is bandwidth.
- deleted 8y ago
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