On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:46 PM Steve Karmeinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
I know. I remember. I didn't understand then how just two streams was in any way useful. I still don't. I always considered it too little scale for too much effort.
