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		rcfox on Jan 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook is the new AOL Don't forget timing. Netflix and Youtube probably wouldn't have been successful in the early 2000s just due to bandwidth limitations.

waps on Jan 5, 2015 [–]

Didn't Netflix have what every other service was missing ? Netflix had a deal that they could stream whatever they had on DVDs for a fixed price. So they had boatloads of streamable content, which was the major stumbling block of everything else.

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