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Which software was ahead of its time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was pretty good for the time indeed! I had a 10MBit link back then, watched a lot of funny videos through RP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I liked that I could get loud bursts of static in real-time!!