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AOL was still pretty widely-used then, and it used the concept of "channels" so it wasn't too much of a stretch. I suppose the writers figured that paradigm used for the early internet would stick.
Alternatively, they were accidentally right in that the internet, streaming specifically, is looping back around to become cable TV again.
I was telling my daughter a couple of days ago about how the internet was before the web and how you had to have separate software for IRC and for MUDs and for FTP and for USENET and for Gopher and so on, and then I suddenly realized that's what it's gone back to. A different app for everything.
OMG you're right. I didn't even think of it that way. Except now it's worse because every little thing has its own pointless app rather than just things on different protocols.
The protocols used to be the point. Now folks consider that noise and variations in access and experience cause more friction than cohesion.
YouTube has "channels"