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Not on-demand, rather, channel-ADAPTIVE video streaming as embodied in the ubiquitous 3GPP2 DASH protocols, and used by html 5, took the world by storm 2010-201
by williamDafoe 7y ago
Not on-demand, rather, channel-ADAPTIVE video streaming as embodied in the ubiquitous 3GPP2 DASH protocols, and used by html 5, took the world by storm 2010-2014, when YouTube and Netflix dropped Silverlight to use the newer, open standard.
Adaptive streaming originated as a Microsoft pilot project for the Beijing 2008 olympics. Microsoft's prototype had so many hacks and so little documentation that they publically admitted to giving up on standardizing it and threw their support behind mpeg DASH in ~2011.
Also, YouTube reached profitability in 2015 when it was ported to Google's lowest-TCO infrastructure. YouTube monetization practically invented the 10 minute video and made millionaires out of many online personalities.