How common were Let's Plays and videogame livestreaming in 2002?

I think it started becoming a thing around 2007ish probably. I remember there were a lot of CoD youtubers then.

So there were no livestreams in 2002?? I didn't use the internet much until 2006 when I was 7, but it's hard to imagine that the internet wasn't kind of boring before videos and streaming...

>how common was livestreaming back before most people had high bandwidths and capture cards, mics, streaming software, and distribution channels?

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Can't say there weren't any, but the bandwidth really wasn't there for most people. The first time I started noticing just recorded gameplay + commentary after the fact was around 2007.

>2006 when I was 7
jesus christ.
The internet was plenty fun. There were videos everywhere, it's just the resolution and quality was much lower. Also it was much more scattered in different sites. But honestly, that was a blessing. It meant you could have access to stuff people didn't know about and share it or keep it for yourself.

Forums, and games were pretty much everywhere. And geospace sites. It was an amazing time when you weren't ruled by Google.

Are you a brainlet

I was active on the internet all throughout the 2000s and don't remember videos being everywhere. I guess there were somewhat popular Flash videos at sites I didn't use, but I don't think most of the kids I went to high school with during the early/mid 2000s were even aware you could watch any kinds of videos online prior to YouTube (which opened my senior year). During my high school time, online videos were mostly just something the techies and nerds were aware of.

he's not a brainlet, he's just too young to even comprehend life before the internet.

video streaming existed in the form of realplayer live feeds and whatnot, but nobody was streaming games
i don't feel like i saw anyone stream games till the ps3 era and all its "movie games", in which case it was just like, well you're already watching this game if you paid for it and there was hardly anything to play, why not just see the entire thing for free?

i remember the streaming system being pretty mature when heavy rain came out
had streaming websites with chat on the side and no need for weird plugins or clients

>I didn't use the internet much until 2006 when I was 7, but it's hard to imagine that the internet wasn't kind of boring before videos and streaming...
Holy shit I'm the same age as you and didn't get an internet before 2006 but even I am not that fucking retarded

1987er here. Baby user isn't entirely wrong. I got the internet in 1998 and didn't find the pre-Youtube internet boring at all, but I probably would find it much more boring now if streaming magically disappeared from existence.

porn videos were like weeds, my man. Newgrounds was a pretty big site for videos. I mean digital cameras pre-Youtube weren't common. Most people were still using MiniDV or some other analogue medium.

smartphones were different too

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That helps explain it, I've never used porn because I always just fap using my imagination.

>it's hard to imagine that the internet wasn't kind of boring before videos and streaming...
Videos existed, but resolution was lower than what you're used to. As for boring - no way. Using the internet, you could browse vast amounts of information without having to go to a library or book store. You could also communicate with people anywhere in the world no matter where you lived. These things may be standard today, but back then they weren't.

How did people upload videos without digital cameras or phone cameras?

youtu.be/OyTPAN7uvoU

lol. Stay that way user, Life is much more enjoyable.
You plugged in your camera to a computer. Usually it was an RCA out or maybe even USB if your camera was real fancy. Then you had to play the video in it's entirety in real time and you used software to record it frame by frame. So if you wanted to save a 9 minute video, you had to let it play for 9 minutes before you could look at it or manipulate it.

And this was without digital cameras? You could do this with manual film cameras????

>digital cameras
>manual cameras
nigga tryin too hard

I'm not sure if you're trolling but I'll play along.
With film cameras, you had a few options. Either you got your negatives developed, then scanned the pictures with a scanner or you scanned the negatives and used software to digitally develop the pictures how you want.

Analogue, I mean. I'm tired, sorry.

I was referring to this post . What were these analogue methods that let you upload videos without digital cameras?

I answered that with this post You connected the camera to your computer, then let the tape or dvd play. The computer copied the frames and made it into a digital file. Then you could upload it to a website.

Ohhh... I'm just surprised you could do that with regular analogue film.

not with film, usually VHS-C for analog or DV tapes

There were offline Let's Plays

youtube.com/watch?v=5QtOj7rNFCY

the internet was infinetely better and more fun back then. the boring normie dreck which is is no way different from real life we have now sucks. i don't think i've watched someone stream anyrhing in my life, but speaking od videos, it's the lowest quality content on the internet, so amswering that baby user's question, no internet was much much bettet back then and i'm sorry you're not gonna experience it like it was.

>People who talk about using dial-up in 2002 call others young
Dial-up usage had fallen immensely already at that time, DSL had been a thing for a few years already and ISPs where pushing it hard, also broadband existed.

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dial-up usage was at its peak in 2002, with about 10% using broadband

I hate how grumpy old people try to act as though technologies were more prevalent at certain points than they were. Dial-up in 2002 was very much the norm. Even in October 2003, only about 20 percent of US households had DSL or broadband.

>mom hates technology
>finally got my first 56k modem in 2004 after years of trying to convince her
>said i needed it for school
>really just wanted it for porn and music
>downloading a single mp3 file took over 40 minutes in limewire
i don't miss it one bit

What anime is this from?
Google/WAIT can't find it.

Hello! It's an edit of Chino from Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka to have pink hair; she normally has a sort of white/silver.

why are you still not using yandex for reverse image search

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You didn't search hard enough.

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>white/silver
You meant light blue?

>US
Fair point.

Holy fuck, pink hair chino is CUTE

yes, the infrastructure wasn't as rapidly upgraded here
especially in smaller rural areas

Game center cx is from 2003.

Pre-youtube internet at least had lots of flash animations an games. Nowadays it's just shit clickbait.

I remember like 10 years ago I used to play with streamers who streamed on justin.tv in like 240p and it was fucking terrible to look at, I have a recording of them viewing my POV.

Good times good times

>not even underage
I fear for our future

it's almost like time flies.
don't worry though, I'll worry with you.

2002 were the good old times, where the youngsters of day hadn't infested the web with their shitty video games *sips*.

People used to letsplay on forums, screenshots plus text, not even kidding.

where did everything go so wrong

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Is this the first known livestream? Someone send this to the future for internet historians to record.

that's like arguing that 100Mb/s internet is the norm now (protip: it's not)
i knew exactly one person with 256Kb/s broadband in 2002, everyone else (including myself) had dialup

-- actually, not everyone i knew had internet access at all
it hadn't quite come ubiquitous like it is now

>2006

you just reminded me of battle reports

classic.battle.net/scc/br/
battlereports.com

starcraft didn't even get replay files until sometime in 2001 so people use to observe the game and write commentary, good memories

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Slightly before twitch started taking off.

If I remember correctly Vinesauce started in February 2010, I Love them.

Can't recall the names of the streaming services which predate twitch though.

Didn't exist. The bandwidth for things like that weren't there.
There were a few people who recorded themselves via VHS playing a video game, but that usually wasn't shared.

none what so ever.

the closest i can think of is people watching sc1 on cable TV in S.Korea
and other people downloading replays from top players for sc1

people were lucky to have 1500kb/s down internet, however some places did have 10mbit/s internet, that would allow video steam, only just.
You can this with scene in American Pie
youtube.com/watch?v=AfHsD9fIHjI

I'd say ~70% of the world was on dial up like speeds at this time. (a % i pulled out of my arse)

Why does this have more downvotes than upvotes? Did SJWs get to it because muh rape culture?

not sure, but with 60k views you would think there would be more up/down votes.

maybe alot of the views was counted before the thumbs up system.

why 2002 exactly?
is that when you were born?

Justin.tv

livestreaming anything but a webcam wasn't really feasable for most people
webcam streaming was somewhat common, the reason they worked was because there was plenty of low-resolution, low-framerate things you could capture with a webcam
while video games need at least one of high framerate (like shooters) or high resolution (like rts)

i member watching a hick neet playing sonic 3 on livestream.com somewhere around 2012
there was also stick.am and ustream.tv

also op i swear i heard about someone livestreaming (meaning a single frame every 5-10-15 seconds and no audio) from a single camera in their house in either the late 90's or early 00's, i swear it was a trend at some point around then

are you an agelet?

web site games suck

i was jacking off to internet porn images and maybe videos in 2003, i don't remember too clearly

In 2006-2007 YouTube few people cam record some video game scenes as glitches,tutorial or speed runs.

Internet Radio or podcast begins like 2003 or 2005 in realplay and utter shitty bitrate.

One of the earliest streams I can remember viewing was Technical Itch & MC GQ @ Renegade Hardware back in 2003. I had 128kbps ADSL back then and had to watch the stream at 64kbps to prevent buffering.

youtube.com/watch?v=nylybtPXWCY

I'd wired my computer into my hifi system so my friends could come round and we could take MDMA, drink and listen to music all night.

Good times.

>zoomers will never know the feeling of using a complicated ffmpeg script to stream to justin.tv in 2012
>zoomers will never know the comfy feels of streaming to 5-10 strangers who eventually become good friends and everyone took turns streaming their favorite games
>zoomers will never know how cool it was to show off debian running linux 2.6 to your streaming buddies

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