Broadband did exist even when most people were still on dial-up, and with every major ISP their generic plan included your own personal web space from which they would serve your content to the world.
All you had to do was upload your content to your own web address, and throw in some html or PHP if you wanted to.
Even if all you had was dial-up, you could (slowly) upload a decent length video, and after that anybody with broadband could watch it with full FPS.
The original webcams were jerky and blurry by today's standards but they live-streamed just fine using Windows XP and the free Windows Media Encoder. Anybody using Windows Media Player could view the stream directly without need for a browser. Also players like VLC work for Linux or Mac users.
Now OBS is a common app for streaming (broadcasting) today which allows you to encode or compress the video (output) or stream however you like. An HD webcam, fast PC, and fiber ISP connection can handle a number of simultaneous viewers at full FPS.
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Keep in mind it started out viable.
Broadband did exist even when most people were still on dial-up, and with every major ISP their generic plan included your own personal web space from which they would serve your content to the world.
All you had to do was upload your content to your own web address, and throw in some html or PHP if you wanted to.
Even if all you had was dial-up, you could (slowly) upload a decent length video, and after that anybody with broadband could watch it with full FPS.
The original webcams were jerky and blurry by today's standards but they live-streamed just fine using Windows XP and the free Windows Media Encoder. Anybody using Windows Media Player could view the stream directly without need for a browser. Also players like VLC work for Linux or Mac users.
Now OBS is a common app for streaming (broadcasting) today which allows you to encode or compress the video (output) or stream however you like. An HD webcam, fast PC, and fiber ISP connection can handle a number of simultaneous viewers at full FPS.