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title: "Which came first, Android or YouTube?"
description: "Android vs YouTube: YouTube came first, by 3 years — 2005 against 2008. What happened in each case, and why the dates are often given differently."
url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/android-vs-youtube/
site: "At One Place"
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# Which came first, Android or YouTube?

**Which came first, Android or YouTube?: YouTube**

2005 — 3 years before Android

YouTube came first, by 3 years. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.

## Side by side

|  | Android | YouTube |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Year | 2008 | 2005 |
| Date | 2008-09-23 | 2005-02-14 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The HTC Dream, the first Android phone, was announced. | The domain was registered; the first video followed in April. |

## Android

Android as a company was founded in October 2003 — four years before the iPhone — originally to build an operating system for digital cameras. Google bought it in 2005 and the first Android phone shipped in October 2008, fifteen months after the iPhone went on sale. So Android is older than the iPhone as a project and younger as a product, which is why the question needs the distinction stated.

## 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, Android or YouTube?

YouTube, by 3 years — 2005 against 2008.

### When did Android start?

2008. The HTC Dream, the first Android phone, was announced.

### When did YouTube start?

2005. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.

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