[NPMUG] Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube

[Dave Sevick]

Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube
Remember when video on the Internet was painful? There were low bandwidth caps; QuickTime, RealPlayer, and Windows Media were the formats of choice; and finding good video was a challenge. Then YouTube came along in early 2005 and changed all that.

By Anders Bylund | Last updated December 6, 2009 11:30 PM



You might feel like access to online video clips is one of those "inalienable rights" you hear so much about. The Internet of 2009 is awash in video content, from your favorite Seinfeld episodes to homemade videos of cats playing the piano—and everything in between. And you can get the material you're looking for from a plethora of sources. And I really do mean plethora in the most literal of senses, where it translates into surfeit, excess, andoverabundance. If you want to share a clip with the world, you can go to YouTube or MySpace TV, DailyMotion or Metacafe, Vimeo or Truveo—and the list goes on and on. Video hosting is now a very mature field with lots of consumer choice and its own set of conventions and traditions.

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