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YouTube was founded in 2005, and then sold to Google in 2006. Then it was run under Google from 2006 to 2023. Does anyone remember what 2005 looked like at al
by gretch 3y ago
YouTube was founded in 2005, and then sold to Google in 2006.
Then it was run under Google from 2006 to 2023.
Does anyone remember what 2005 looked like at all?
But people really like the narrative that Google couldn’t make a YouTube
- Scoring6931 3y agoThey had a YouTube. It was called Google Video, and it went nowhere.
- throwaway2037 3y agoAnd, there is no way that YouTube could survive on its own. The last mile bandwidth problem required a Google-sized company to help them solve it. This is usually overlooked.
- dilyevsky 3y agoLegend has it they had like weeks of runway left and didn’t pay any of their bills once it looked like the deal was going to close
- xnx 3y agoI remember Google Videos being better than YouTube at the time, but IIRC it didn't have the amount of pirate content that initially made YouTube popular.
- sjwhevvvvvsj 3y agoThis was borne out in lawsuits. The YouTube tech wasn’t better, GVideo was superior but disnt have the same buzz or content, it was the pirated content Google wanted. The emails are public record.