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Not sure why this title has "goes viral", it is nothing new. Almost 8 years ago, Dr. Jules White explained a simpler setup(at least IMO as less software) in ve
by yftsui 5y ago
Not sure why this title has "goes viral", it is nothing new.
Almost 8 years ago, Dr. Jules White explained a simpler setup(at least IMO as less software) in very detail with a Mirror:
Building a Low-cost Lightboard for Video Lectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwXOLU4TKk
- Hydraulix989 5y agoI would consider top 10 on HN front page to be "going viral."
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoThat seems like a pretty low bar. When I think viral I don't think, "gets to the top 10 submissions of a niche forum".
- iamben 5y agoI suppose it depends on what you're used to? From my own (and other people's) experiences, you can have a project with a few hundred site visits - get towards the top of HN, and you can have 100k visits over the next few days. A good enough project on HN tends to get coverage elsewhere, a lot of Tweets etc etc.
- saagarjha 5y agoTIL I've gone viral!
- yftsui 5y agoWhat made to top 10 is the article claims the event is going viral, NOT the event itself. The exaggeration on news articles with this type of title has become a pattern.
- asdff 5y agoThere were rooms you could rent at my undergrad in the library that had a built in light board specifically for recording these sorts of lecture videos.
- djmips 5y agoThings can go viral long after they are invented. And they can go viral more than once. Just like a real virus!
- OJFord 5y agoThe same reason things describe themselves as One Weird Trick, or N Unbelievably Adjective Things, claim that The Internet Cannot Handle them, etc. very quickly ad nauseam. I can't stand it, won't click them, but clearly I'm abnormal and it works, most people love it (or have a 'FOMO' on it) and click them.
- beowulfey 5y agoThanks for sharing this. I would imagine it is getting popular now due to a sudden increase in the number of people needing to do digital lessons. FWIW, I had never seen your video nor heard of a lightboard prior to this HN post, so I would say viral is pretty on point.