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Dial-Up Despair to Streaming Supremacy: How Online Video Revolutionized Entertainment
In 1995, my Mortal Kombat trailer experience was a pixelated patience test over dial-up. Fast forward, and streaming has KO’d Hollywood norms, making my screen dreams a flawless victory. #Engadget20Years
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Well, butter my bytes and call me a data packet—streaming has done to video what toasters did to bread! From the pixelated purgatory of '90s online videos to today's buffet of binge-worthy streaming, we've come a long way since "buffering" was the most dreaded word on the web. It's like we've gone from etch-a-sketch to high-def in the blink of an autoplay. So grab your popcorn (and maybe your credit card for all those subscriptions), because this trip down memory modem lane is about to get real... or, well, virtual.
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