This Is How YouTube Works

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What, you think all those lolcat videos and emo webcasts just get to your computer by magic? Not so, my friends. Here's how YouTube videos actually get from smartphone to small screen.

Kudos to Time Warner Cable for putting this together, although I think they left out the part where Jeff bangs his head against the keyboard waiting for some stupid dog video to load already. [TWC via SAI]

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