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The early internet was so human and genuine. (lemmy.world)

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I remember reading comments on Slashdot circa 2005 "explaining" why video streaming would never replace physical media. I totally bought it at the time.

This was a moment in time when Netflix existed, but it only sent DVDs through the mail. Only took a few years before their streaming service took off. Also, YouTube showed up around that time (and then Google bought it).

[–] fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

and netflix wasn't even the first one to do streaming, years before them some startup bought one physical disk for each stream and if they ran out of copies you had to wait for someone else to finish watching the movie, it was like a digital library. they did it to avoid copyright issues but they got sued into the ground and died. then netflix happened and now we have another cable tv subscription instead of an internet

[–] gangdinesout@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Fuck. I almost forgot Google didn't always own YouTube...