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Didn't youtube start off as a dating website?
by scrollaway 4y ago
Didn't youtube start off as a dating website?
- mtmail 4y agoMaybe you're mixing that up with Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg started FaceMash to compare students in a 'hot or not' type website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#FaceMash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#FaceMash
- rmason 4y agoNope, YouTube really did start out as a dating site where you could record videos. Quite simply it didn't work very well. They pivoted and history was made. Others had tried earlier with the same idea but the pieces weren't in place. Plus being members of the PayPal mafia they knew how to execute.
- mtmail 4y agoI was wrong indeed. Screenshot of the dating-site youtube.com https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/https://www.youtube.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/https://www.youtu...
- avg_dev 4y agoSomething about that capture gave me a good chuckle. > I'm a [Male] seeking [Everyone] between [18] and [45].
- trentgreene 4y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/16/youtube-past-video-dating-website https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/16/youtube-p...