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by sliverstorm 5005 days ago
Wait, are you arguing YouTube is an unworthy hack? They have got to have a pretty big infrastructure to manage and re-encode all that video.
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Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the early history of YouTube
I'm actually not. Any good reads you know of?
Could do worse than leafing through here (perhaps change date range to cover 2005): https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&#3...