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by yuhong 2839 days 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.
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cortesoft 2839 days ago
Is the limiting factor for youtube really disk space? I would imagine it is bandwidth.
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lbearl 2839 days ago
YouTube was a separate company acquired by Google in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
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yuhong 2839 days ago
Yep, I mean YouTube existing within Google obviously.
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