CHAPTER 1 History How Streaming Came into Existence People have been communicating with each other for thousands of years What began as rock carvings has slowly changed into books newspapers magazines movies radio TV and the Internet Together they are called media One of the most popular ways people get their media is by streaming it from the Internet People stream television movies music and even books They can do this almost anywhere in the world thanks to streaming technology But it wasn’t always so easy to access media this way 4 21st century skills library
The term computer used to refer to a person who solved math by hand Early Days Attempts to stream media date back to the late 1800s The first to attempt streaming were Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla inventors of long-distance radio By 1927 Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented a way to wirelessly transmit digital images from one place to another This was the beginnings of television With the invention of the first programmable computer during the 1930s and the Internet in the late 1960s streaming media became more of a reality In 1995 Progressive Networks an Internet-based Streaming TV 5
There are still 9 4 million people in the United States that use dial-up 6
Tim Berners-Lee invented the first Internet browser in 1990 It was called WorldWideWeb media service provider became the first to stream audio online for the public The audio was of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners Five years later the company renamed RealNetworks provided more than 85 percent of the streaming content online In 1997 other companies were developing better and faster ways to stream audio and video To do this they needed to increase the Internet bandwidth At this time most people were using dial-up to connect to the Internet Dial-up connections didn’t Streaming TV 7
