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Streaming music was available back in the 1970s. It consisted of you and your friends sitting on the floor with an AM radio and a portable cassette recorder and hoping the local station would play your song you wanted to hear and record. And IF your timing was right, you could get the whole song recorded. All so you could play it back on that cheap tinny sounding recorder. Such recordings were often used as a gift to your latest girl/boy friend with "Our Song" on it.
Hmm. 1970 is a little early for a kid to have a portable cassette recorder. Transistor radios were just getting affordable enough to give a kid.
Tunes in a TV stream...
In 1970, I'd get home from kindergarten and watch Mr. Rogers in B&W. My mom didn't like color TVs for a long time because the colors were "wrong"--she was an artist, a painter. So, we didn't have a color TV till the mid-70s when she saw a Sony TV and decided the color was okay.
EDIT: I don't like that Lemmy is changing my double hyphen (--) to an en-dash. I guess I'll need to escape it from now on. I don't like being tagged as AI, when I'm clearly just an old-school non-AI bot.
I still dont stream. I buy big hard drives and full them with stuff. :)
I also don't stream, they're all played locally. But my music taste is also conservative, I don't easily like new songs, I just keep listening the same few albums for years.
She looks more like weird Al than Jack Black looks like meatloaf.
Veronica is the best!
I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.
I guess people sit all day and stream stuff, because you cant do hobbies like dance, yoga, bicycle or anything else looool.
Yeah most people dont have the energy for those things, but its by design. Work and family takes all your energy. And then they want you to watch tv so you can get served ads, or watch news so you feel small and afraid.
work and family is excluded, for obvious reasons.
20 years ago…
Even YouTube was around by that point.
You could stream 144p6 video with phone-like audio with a RealPlayer browser plugin and a 28k modem in 1998. Very few websites served video but some TV channels were available live like this, maybe also in 240p15 at double the bitrate with a luxury 56k modem or ISDN. Viewers with slower modems could often download such videos as VODs (depending on copyright because those didn't have RealPlayer DRM) as WMV (with Microsoft's proprietary codec better than MPEG-2) or AVI (as MPEG-2 so you could burn it onto a CD and view on a DVD player but it's unlikely you'd have a big disk and CD burner but processor too slow for that video). DVD-quality video (high bitrate 480p30/480i60/480p24/576p25/576i60, now considered low-end for movies) only became available to stream about 10 years later.
Pretty sure Pandora was around. But also I'd consider cable and satellite TV to be streaming services.
I don't stream today. And still watch movies, shows and listen to music. Strange.
Tapes , lots and lots of them
My grandpa recorded absolutely everything on VHS in the 90s. He had so many bookshelves full of movies and shows he meticulously catalogued. I wanted to ask him if he ever actually watched any of them, but I didn’t want to break his spirit.
OK, thanks iam that old, the years 70 and 80 where the best times to be around ,,talk to your grandfather ,ask him everything about that time
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.
There were huge antiwar protests and the National Guard shot a bunch of students at Kent State. But thank God there was no streaming TV. That would have been insufferable.
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...
This gif is perfect, I was listening to a song, then it finished and went to the next one, and in both his punches were completely synced to the beat both times
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.
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!
Happy didn't exist either.
Still doesn't.
Exactly, it was gay!
That looks like a streaming video
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
The closest thing these days are reuploads.
But it's funny, no more sitting through a block of something you don't like because your show is on next.
And fetch drinks, but you were expected to tip them
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 almost forgot about the winamp video streams. I do still remember the 24/7 red Vs blue stream that was on it though!
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.
They were called broadcasts back then. And the equipment you needed was a bit more expensive and bulkier.
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.
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