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Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
Imagine the admin required to setup and manage something like that... If implemented now, what about in 2032 when you're watching re-runs from 2022? What if the store goes bust or styles change?
Display advertising will show you products that you have expressed an interest in today.
Streaming video has ad slots similar to traditional linear TV because it's what people are used to. There is the opportunity to do much much more.
What I could see happening is content changing to be tailored to the viewer. This would both decrease subscriber churn in the increasingly competitive streaming space, as well as add a feature to advertise via the content itself.
You like the pants? Point your remote at them to purchase with a single click. Honestly, I could see Amazon sponsoring streaming content for that purpose. AWS has streaming services and Amazon has been doing the logistics for decades.
Interesting that the copper wires stuck around, UK's fibre optic rollout still ongoing not to be completed til 2026 or later
Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
Fun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…
When I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
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Cell towers are not a replacement for wired connections. There's only so much data rate you can have for a given frequency bandwidth[1]. Wires (or fibers) work around this because the medium isn't shared. Each wire has the entire spectrum for itself. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theo...
Oh absolutely! I guess I'm confusing my own point - which is / was that in some places cell towers are showing up -before- wireline connections.
Port explicitly specified in at least one URL. Was HTTP without a standard port back in '94?
I figured that it was someone's idea to get above the 1024 mark when all they had was a shell account and people weren't using :8080 yet. It could also be that "virtual hosting by name" wasn't a thing yet so a single computer hosting multiple sites had to break it out by port.
Interesting that the copper wires stuck around, UK's fibre optic rollout still ongoing not to be completed til 2026 or later
Inventions like mp3 probably helped to reduce the pressure to upgrade.