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> No one knew what to do with broadband before VoD and digital delivery (Steam, GoG, app stores, etc.) came along, and we're only a few years into widespread ad
by muzz 13y ago
> No one knew what to do with broadband before VoD and digital delivery (Steam, GoG, app stores, etc.) came along, and we're only a few years into widespread adoption of those technologies
Napster, then other file-sharing services (Morpheus, Kazaa), Bittorrent, etc. This was ~25% of internet traffic in the mid-00s
- mkr-hn 13y ago25% of 5% of the current population of Internet users isn't much. It wasn't that long ago that people wondered if the Internet had staying power. Few people believed it had much influence outside itself before the 2008 elections. The greatest period of Internet growth was post-YouTube. The greatest growth in build out and adoption of gigabit Internet will be post-whatever takes advantage of it. My point still stands: > No one knew what to do with broadband before VoD and digital delivery (Steam, GoG, app stores, etc.) came along, and we're only a few years into widespread adoption of those technologies