Nowadays people watch 1080p Youtube videos on their phones. Back in my day, videos were download-only, and you might spend a few hours to get a 120p TV rip a couple minutes long, like the classic video of the beached whale being blown up by dynamite.
There’s a school of thought that youtube style content isn’t good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.
Mainly it’s because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.
I’d love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.
It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.
But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.
Yeah… No. I’d much rather have the faster speeds, higher bandwidth and features that are common today than what was typical back then. The only things that were actually better was the limited number of ads (if any were on the page at all) and the variety being so that you could add “.com” to any random word or phrase and find a cool site way more than a domain name placeholder or porn.
It was better then too!
People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.
They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as ‘the norm’ and it fucking makes me ill.
Nowadays people watch 1080p Youtube videos on their phones. Back in my day, videos were download-only, and you might spend a few hours to get a 120p TV rip a couple minutes long, like the classic video of the beached whale being blown up by dynamite.
There’s a school of thought that youtube style content isn’t good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.
Mainly it’s because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.
I’d love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.
It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.
But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.
So true!
Yeah… No. I’d much rather have the faster speeds, higher bandwidth and features that are common today than what was typical back then. The only things that were actually better was the limited number of ads (if any were on the page at all) and the variety being so that you could add “.com” to any random word or phrase and find a cool site way more than a domain name placeholder or porn.
random angelfire pages were prime internet
The good ol’ days