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title: "Which came first, the iPhone or YouTube?"
description: "the iPhone vs YouTube: YouTube came first, by 2 years — 2005 against 2007. What happened in each case, and why the dates are often given differently."
url: https://atoneplace.net/which-came-first/iphone-vs-youtube/
site: "At One Place"
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# Which came first, the iPhone or YouTube?

**Which came first, the iPhone or YouTube?: YouTube**

2005 — 2 years before the iPhone

YouTube came first, by 2 years. The domain was registered; the first video followed in April.

## Side by side

|  | the iPhone | YouTube |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Year | 2007 | 2005 |
| Date | 2007-06-29 | 2005-02-14 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement. | The domain was registered; the first video followed in April. |

## the iPhone

Announced on 9 January 2007 and on sale from 29 June, the first iPhone had no app store, no copy and paste, no 3G and no video recording. The App Store arrived over a year later in July 2008. Android Inc. had been founded in 2003, four years before the iPhone, but the first Android phone shipped fifteen months after it.

## 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, the iPhone or YouTube?

YouTube, by 2 years — 2005 against 2007.

### When did the iPhone start?

2007. The first iPhone went on sale after a January announcement.

### When did YouTube start?

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

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