Re:Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope
by ClassyJacket on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:00AM
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I did not think they were streaming movies in 1997 and I did not say I thought they were streaming movies in 1997. I thought they simply did not exist until years later when they started streaming. This should have been obvious from what I said, I'm not a total moron.
Re:Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope
by eCa on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:43AM
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> directly streaming movies to consumers was techincally impossible anywhere in the world.
Yeah, a 33.6 kb/s modem vs a station wagon hurtling down the highway with a dvd is a fair fight.
And yeah TikTok/etc didn't exist then. No one hard smartphones and the Internet was text/GIF only.
That said, we used to have the America's Funniest Home Videos show. People mailed in VHS recordings of their kids/pets doing cute, funny, or cringe things. This aired on TV and people voted to pick a winner. People could win $10k-100k in prize money. So yeah, proto YT or whatever was a thing, just scaled to available tech at the time.
EDIT: Just realized AFHV is still around, and will outlive Netflix DVDs. *That* certainly feels like a joke. How does a network television meme show still exist in 2023???