Windows94toAsklemmy@lemmy.ml·9 months agoWhich software was ahead of its time?message-squarearrow-up1178arrow-down14message-square166fedilink
arrow-up1174arrow-down1message-squareWhich software was ahead of its time?Windows94toAsklemmy@lemmy.ml·9 months agomessage-square166fedilink
minus-squareMIDItheKIDarrow-up30arrow-down1·9 months agoedit-29 months agolinkfedilinkReal Player. Nobody had enough bandwidth to actually stream anything. I guess some people had IDSN, and maybe even fewer cable internet, but the majority of the world was still on dial up. You can’t stream video on dial up.
minus-squareAuxarrow-up4arrow-down0·9 months agolinkfedilinkIt was pretty good for the time indeed! I had a 10MBit link back then, watched a lot of funny videos through RP.
minus-squareRoopappyEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·9 months agolinkfedilinkI liked that I could get loud bursts of static in real-time!!
Real Player.
Nobody had enough bandwidth to actually stream anything. I guess some people had IDSN, and maybe even fewer cable internet, but the majority of the world was still on dial up. You can’t stream video on dial up.
It was pretty good for the time indeed! I had a 10MBit link back then, watched a lot of funny videos through RP.
I liked that I could get loud bursts of static in real-time!!