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> I think YouTube's success is mainly that they were first

Actually, Vimeo's first videos[0] were uploaded a month before YouTube's[1].

[0] https://vimeo.com/15 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw



I think Google Video also launched slightly before YouTube, if I'm remembering and reading the dates right.


No, that was in April 2005: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2669287/google-launches-vi...


Wikipedia said January 25th for some reason


Video search was launched then, but you couldn’t submit your own videos.


Thank you for pointing it out, for some reason I thought that Vimeo was significantly more recent.




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