On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 03:31:18PM -0800 or thereabouts, Leo Vegoda wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 4:43 PM Steve Karmeinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > In 2000 Demon also netcast the first Big Brother (Nasty Nick) with BT and I 
> > think at peak there were 34,000 streams (17K
> > each) which was the largest netcast at the time (also using Real Networks 
> > streaming tech).
> > Shame Demon never took full advantage of the free 2 streams (in perpetuity) 
> > that each customer could have.
> I didn't understand what people could usefully achieve with two
> streams when they were made available and I still don't. I'd love to
> understand what opportunity was missed.

This was befoire streaming/MP3/etc became popular, so anyone with a
website on Demon could host some form of audio that was streamed (rather
than downloaded via http).

Steve

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