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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.



Is the limiting factor for youtube really disk space? I would imagine it is bandwidth.


YouTube was a separate company acquired by Google in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube


Yep, I mean YouTube existing within Google obviously.




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