• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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…

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        2 days ago

        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.

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        2 days ago

        I remember watching South Park on RealPlayer…I guess it was streaming and I forgot! Yeah, that’d be my first time as well.