Happy didn't exist either.
Still doesn't.
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Pretty sure Pandora was around. But also I'd consider cable and satellite TV to be streaming services.
Veronica is the best!
I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.
🔗I wonder when I first started regularly streaming video? I remember downloading things to watch because streaming was too slow. Probably YouTube, but I don't remember when I started using it.
I think it was RealPlayer for me. I remember finding different sites and praying the connection was alright. That they were at least close enough in the world that you didn't see that awful word, "Buffering..." Then I learned how to rip the whole rt file. Pretty sure I still have Trigun in rt actually...
Then once Winamp had video streaming, I remember surfing through crap on there all the time. Sooooo many weird foreign movies and anime...
I lived in the middle of nowhere and my dial-up could only do 19.6k.
Good enough to "12/f/Cali sorry no mic I gotta TracFone with no minutes parents keep the house phone in their room cuz I got caught talking to guys lol"
And that's how me as a 14 year old boy paid for my cellphone with no job.
I remember watching South Park on RealPlayer...I guess it was streaming and I forgot! Yeah, that'd be my first time as well.
I stream from self hosted sources, best of all worlds. No enshitification.
New media is acquired for free from the public libraries and then ripped, which under my local laws is perfectly legal.
Tapes , lots and lots of them
57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was slowly starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.
Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.
Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.
Uhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.
I’m mean you had reel to reel. Which was a tape right, just not a cassette?
And Film/Movies/TV Shows were also distributed as Tape Reels.
Philips started with cassettapes in my country Belgium in 63 , betamax and vhs where for video.
8 mm camera and movies were also available
I will give it a shot for the tapes my parents have in the Attic
There was something called a rotary telephone and TV with an antenna. Children were typically used as the remote control to change the channel using a dial or buttons on the TV.
Also kids being the first to run into the house and turn on the TV because it had to warm up. You needed to have it up and running before your show came on because if you missed it you weren't gonna see it until reruns. Now it has occurred to me the term rerun is obsolete
And fetch drinks, but you were expected to tip them
Stream? Yeah I go down by the stream often
I live in a van near one (this generation's dream.).
I'd give anything for a steady diet of government cheese...
They were called broadcasts back then. And the equipment you needed was a bit more expensive and bulkier.
They were called broadcasts back then.
They still are. I get 50 channels OTA and I have a DVR to record them if I need to. I stream nothing but my own media off Plex. All this costs me $0/mo.
I know its a bit off topic but at least in Australia all the free to air channels have their own app and if you have them all its a not insignificant selection.
I mean, any YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming. It's probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.
EDIT: Though to this influencer's credit, she seems more low key and avoids other social media. It appears she only does YT, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Peertube(!) and her own site, and uploads on a modest scheduile. That's quite reasonable.
Honestly super big props to this influencer for uploading a video about cutting out all streaming services 37 years before Netflix even started trying to pivot towards internet streaming!
Thumbnail looked like Weird Al.
That looks like a streaming video
Damn... Guess I'm 56 now.
A decent “no logs” VPN + thepiratebay.org, or Streamio + realdebrid has solved just about every media issue I’ve had.
Most of the time it’s easier just to open Streamio than search through 8 apps for what I want to watch only to find it gated behind a $65/mo. add on subscription, or not at all.
Mainstream app streaming has gotten worse, and open source streaming has gotten wildly easier.
I get frustrated even trying to pay for a subscription, only to find that I'm being gatekept at 720p/1080p for deigning to use my browser on PC.
Been self hosting my own content since Netflix removed King of the Hill. Cancelled my sub immediately.
For the most part I was doing everything manually with a seedbox, SFTP, and then renaming things.
Just scrapped that setup and did a docker environment with gluetun, qbit, and some *arr apps. Pretty good so far, some annoyances, but was a bit easier than I expected.
Plex?
nah. Plex bad. Kodi or Jellyfin
Why use Plex (and relying on trusting them) when you can selfhost Jellyin?
@DmMacniel @Casterial any advantage on jellyin over emby?
yeah, that its the open source fork of emby.
I cut all streaming services out of my life last year, except for Curiosity Stream, a sort of "Netflix" for educational documentaries.
But I haven't even been watching that in a while, so maybe I should stop paying for it.
I just got sick of rising prices and invasive ads despite paying to avoid them. I use Plex now. I paid the one-time fee for the Lifetime Plex Pass and now I have access to all their advanced tools and streaming content, plus I can rip my movies/TV shows/music to my PC and stream them myself through Plex. No ads, no extra junk, no "are you still watching?" pop-ups. Just hit play and enjoy.
There was a lot more fresh water back then so they were all rivers.
But at least one of those rivers was on fire
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Is that a young Weird Al?
No, that's Veronica. She explains things. Keep up