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Hah, cool! This reminds me of an old 4chan thread where people were trying to get free file storage on YouTube by uploading video's of QR code sequences with fi

Hah, cool! This reminds me of an old 4chan thread where people were trying to get free file storage on YouTube by uploading video's of QR code sequences with files encoded into them. Much less useful than Txqr, but fun nonetheless.

userbinator 8y ago
YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format. Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software#Others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software#Others I suppose if you uploaded a recording of that to YouTube you could do a similar thing, although I can't seem to find any examples at the moment.
- trulyrandom 8y ago
  > YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format. Right. A platform for audio/video or in this case extremely inefficient file storage. > Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format: That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!
- joshschreuder 8y ago
  Netflix did just that for an easter egg in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw There is some audio at the end that can be read into a ZX Spectrum emulator.
tuxxy 8y ago
I did something similar, but not with video. I used bandcamp to store binary files that I converted to wav sound files. I uploaded Arch Linux to it! (https://bullswillriot.bandcamp.com/album/arch-linux-07-01 https://bullswillriot.bandcamp.com/album/arch-linux-07-01) Here's my medium article on it: https://medium.com/@__Tux/using-bandcamp-as-a-backup-solution-3b6549d24579 https://medium.com/@__Tux/using-bandcamp-as-a-backup-solutio...
hatsunearu 8y ago
Holy crap, I remember that exact thread, I was part of it. The OP made a program that just encodes files into a series of QR codes, but I told them that with some additional effort, encoding it into a format that would get less manged by YouTube's compression would make it a lot better.

userbinator 8y ago

YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format. Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software#Others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software#Others I suppose if you uploaded a recording of that to YouTube you could do a similar thing, although I can't seem to find any examples at the moment.

trulyrandom 8y ago
> YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format. Right. A platform for audio/video or in this case extremely inefficient file storage. > Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format: That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!
joshschreuder 8y ago
Netflix did just that for an easter egg in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJNXzfZ4pw There is some audio at the end that can be read into a ZX Spectrum emulator.

tuxxy 8y ago

I did something similar, but not with video. I used bandcamp to store binary files that I converted to wav sound files. I uploaded Arch Linux to it! (https://bullswillriot.bandcamp.com/album/arch-linux-07-01 https://bullswillriot.bandcamp.com/album/arch-linux-07-01) Here's my medium article on it: https://medium.com/@__Tux/using-bandcamp-as-a-backup-solution-3b6549d24579 https://medium.com/@__Tux/using-bandcamp-as-a-backup-solutio...

hatsunearu 8y ago

Holy crap, I remember that exact thread, I was part of it. The OP made a program that just encodes files into a series of QR codes, but I told them that with some additional effort, encoding it into a format that would get less manged by YouTube's compression would make it a lot better.