As much as people might not like to hear it, I believe Flash Videos were how Youtube initially started. Very little could handle buffering videos that well, or

As much as people might not like to hear it, I believe Flash Videos were how Youtube initially started. Very little could handle buffering videos that well, or at scale. Since people kept computers longer, and I was involved in online education/training delivery online in those years, flash video provided more backwards compatibility in a decade where IE4 wouldn't die, then IE6 wouldn't die. Flash Media Server too, did some pretty interesting things. There were open source options like Red5 that were worth trying out.