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What platform was YouTube using before they were acquired by Google?

5th January 2012

My answer to What platform was YouTube using before they were acquired by Google? on Quora

It was written in Python—I don’t think they used any particular framework (they started the site in 2005).

Posted 5th January 2012 at 12:53 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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