Which came first, Amazon or YouTube?
Amazon came first, by 11 years. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
Side by side
| Amazon | YouTube | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1994 | 2005 |
| Date | 1994-07-05 | 2005-02-14 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state. | The domain was registered; the first video followed in April. |
Amazon
Amazon was incorporated on 5 July 1994, originally as Cadabra, and the website opened in July 1995 selling only books. The 1994 incorporation date is used here because it is the company's own founding date; if you mean the shop, 1995 is the answer. Either way it predates Google by three or four years and eBay by about a year.
YouTube
The youtube.com domain was registered on Valentine's Day 2005, the first video — "Me at the zoo", 19 seconds of a co-founder at San Diego Zoo — was uploaded on 23 April, and the site opened publicly in the winter. Google bought it in November 2006 for $1.65 billion, about twenty months after the domain was registered. It is younger than Facebook by a year and older than Twitter by one.
Common questions
- Which came first, Amazon or YouTube?
- Amazon, by 11 years — 1994 against 2005.
- When did Amazon start?
- 1994. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
- When did YouTube start?
- 2005. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.
Related pages
- the internet (ARPANET) or YouTube? the internet (ARPANET)
- email or YouTube? email
- the Macintosh or YouTube? the Macintosh
- Windows or YouTube? Windows
- the World Wide Web or YouTube? the World Wide Web
- Python or YouTube? Python
- Java or YouTube? Java
- JavaScript or YouTube? JavaScript
- Amazon or Microsoft? Microsoft
- Amazon or Apple? Apple
- Amazon or the internet (ARPANET)? the internet (ARPANET)
- Amazon or email? email
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)