Fair Fairy@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agoYouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installsnews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up1865arrow-down110
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minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·edit-217 hours agothere were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new. it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember. other platforms rose up around their success, but I’m pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.
minus-squarediablexical@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 hours agoI was going to say vimeo but checked the dates to make sure I remembered right - looks like it was up even before youtube 2004 vs 2005.
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-215 hours agooh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.
minus-squareHeneryHawk@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·17 hours agoWasn’t dailymotion and liveleak around before YouTube? And it took YouTube some time before it became the mammoth it is now
there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.
it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember.
other platforms rose up around their success, but I’m pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.
I was going to say vimeo but checked the dates to make sure I remembered right - looks like it was up even before youtube 2004 vs 2005.
oh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.
Wasn’t dailymotion and liveleak around before YouTube? And it took YouTube some time before it became the mammoth it is now