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[–] nul42@lemmy.ca 21 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

2007? I remember watching a DivX of The Matrix back in 99. Prior to that I remember watching south park episodes in the RealPlayer.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 15 hours ago

I watched the entirety of Blair witch project the week before it came out in a real player at 300 by 200 pixels. I kept rotating between watching it thumbnail sized and watching it regular player sized. Both were equally inferiorating

[–] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Those RealPlayer Southpark episodes were 15mb and had 8 pixels

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

South Park's graphics were so bad back then that probably almost sufficed.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

Yeah this was going on before that. Media Piracy really set-off in the late 90s when DSL, and cable, internet services became mainstream. Also Netflix started making their own content in response to a growing number of competing services, all fighting over the same pool of production companies' work, and having exclusive rights to one IP, or another, rather than other services being the result of netflix making their own content.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 16 hours ago

Yes, but you are old as a rock.
Those times are lost in the unknowable pre-history of what we call "the internet" today.