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Streaming didnt exist in 1970

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Maven@piefed.zip⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • atropa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tapes , lots and lots of them

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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 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.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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.

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      • atropa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Philips started with cassettapes in  my country  Belgium in 63 ,

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Uhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.

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    • binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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      • atropa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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 

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Image

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    • raicon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I will give it a shot for the tapes my parents have in the Attic

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  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could have watched tv than…where does the idea that streaming invented customers, that pdocasts are the only means to listen? Radio, tv, news?

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    • paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What about 1870 then?

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      • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is a fair assessment, for an early industrial society. I just think we live in the ear of informations, we have more of everything, which is not a good thining, in the end, but we do have more and more. At some point, you’d think that having easy access to information and entertainment would be great, and it is. But I might want to add more friction between me and the informstions, I might avoid further automations.

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  • d3adpaul77@lemmy.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not the technology it’s the culture behind it. the same was said about TV. American mainstream consumerist culture is the cancer,

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stream? Yeah I go down by the stream often

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I live in a van near one (this generation’s dream.).

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d give anything for a steady diet of government cheese…

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      on whom?

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  • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        First, yes I’m bloody old. I had a small and cheap transistor radio mid/late the late 1960s. I got it for Christmas and I listened to it at night before I went to sleep. We had a much bigger multi-band transistor radio they kept in the kitchen that was a fancy one that was dual power. Batteries were expensive and often hard to afford as a kid. I do remember trying to make those batteries last as long as possible. Because we only went to town once a week sometimes even only twice a month. But the things I heard and learned about if the air was right and the am skip was good, and I could find those far distant stations was wondrous to a child.

        We did have a cassette tape recorder by 1972 at the latest. It wasn’t that me and my sisters each had a recorder, we just had the one for the whole family. And I can remember arguing about who got to use first-- me or my sisters. Kind of like the old RCA black and white tube TV. And most families had one. I can remember my Grandfather using it to record Polka and waltz music that he played and some voice stories of his early life. When he died in 1973 I was given a box of dozens of cassettes he had recorded telling those stories and him playing his banjo. Sadly he tapes have long since been worn out.

        Thanks for the memory prompt! Those times were often hard at the moment, but for each one of those there is an equally good memory of family and friends over shadowing them. You made my tea taste better this morning.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, a YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming.

    It’s probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.

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    • Maven@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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!

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Veronica is the best!

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    • sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.

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    • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And so, are you

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    GenX:“Back in my day houses costed 150$!” Gen M-Α:“Sure capitalist, now sign the conservatorship so we can give you the candies you love so much!”🔗

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I still dont stream. I buy big hard drives and full them with stuff. :)

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    20 years ago…

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You could stream 144p6 video with phone-like audio with a RealPlayer browser plugin and a 28k modem in 1998. 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.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Even YouTube was around by that point.

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    • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pretty sure Pandora was around. But also I’d consider cable and satellite TV to be streaming services.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That looks like a streaming video

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  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tunes in a TV stream…

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  • Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    She looks more like weird Al than Jack Black looks like meatloaf.

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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

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      • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And fetch drinks, but you were expected to tip them

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  • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There were huge antiwar protests and National Guard shot a bunch of students at Kent State. But thank God there was no streaming TV. That would have been insufferable.

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  • wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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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    • eli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Casterial@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Plex?

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      • voidsignal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        nah. Plex bad. Kodi or Jellyfin

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why use Plex (and relying on trusting them) when you can selfhost Jellyin?

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I almost forgot about the winamp video streams. I do still remember the 24/7 red Vs blue stream that was on it though!

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They were called broadcasts back then. And the equipment you needed was a bit more expensive and bulkier.

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    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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  • roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I guess people sit all day and stream stuff, because you cant do hobbies like dance, yoga, bicycle or anything else looool.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah most people dont have the energy for those things, but its by design. Work and family takes all your energy.

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      • roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        work and family is excluded, for obvious reasons.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t stream today. And still watch movies, shows and listen to music. Strange.

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  • 13igTyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thumbnail looked like Weird Al.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There was a lot more fresh water back then so they were all rivers.

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    • Jo4ted@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Underrated comment

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    • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But at least one of those rivers was on fire

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Happy didn’t exist either.

    Still doesn’t.

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    • MrChewy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Exactly, it was gay!

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  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that a young Weird Al?

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    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, that’s Veronica. She explains things. Keep up

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      • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But can she explain how Big Earth has convinced people that the earth is round?

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  • Jo4ted@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Damn… Guess I’m 56 now.

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