Reply to: Google near maximum capacity

[Batcher]

People still use Hangouts?

Yes! Three of us have been in the same hangout since 2012 when we worked together down south. We still meet in real life occasionally when we can but have started using the video hangout as a virtual pub during lockdown.

[AtW]

Is that the voice of experience I'm hearing?

No, my family was too poor to have even VHS

[NickFitz]

People still use Hangouts?

They would, except they can’t because Google changed its name yesterday: Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat - The Verge

[darmstadt]

Adult movies were not allowed on Beta apparently...

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[BrilloPad]

Skinned squirrel is a rather niche fetish

Not in Birmingham...

[ladymuck]

By "adult" he means naked squirrels....

Skinned squirrel is a rather niche fetish

[BrilloPad]

Is that the voice of experience I'm hearing?

By "adult" he means naked squirrels....

[ladymuck]

Adult movies were not allowed on Beta apparently...

Is that the voice of experience I'm hearing?

[AtW]

Somehow I think Beetamax would be more appropriate

Adult movies were not allowed on Beta apparently...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Somehow I think Beetamax would be more appropriate

I'm not sure either of mine still work, though since they've got proper non switchmode psus, there's a fair chance they still do.

[NickFitz]

Both Google and Netflix had to drop video bitrates recently.

Interestingly only Google can generate new content today via its users. Soon Netflix will just be an overpriced archive of unfinished TV series in SD quality. Maybe BlueRay and Blockbuster video will rise from the ashes again?

I’m not absolutely certain, but I believe they’ve dropped bitrates to avoid saturating the “last mile” (distance may vary) networks out to consumers' homes.

I believe Google, Amazon, and the like’s data centres, CDNs and so on are linked by private high speed networks running over that there dark fibre and emerge onto the public Internet as late in the journey as possible, so any problems they’re having are unlikely to be related to what commoners like us are getting up to.

[CheeseSlice]

People still use Hangouts?

I think thats gone now.

I think most people are watching streaming vids on YouTube..

(Or maybe its Pornhub given some of the responses on here?)

[barrydidit]

Might be time to break out the VHS cassettes again.

Somehow I think Beetamax would be more appropriate

[DoctorStrangelove]

I knew an old fashioned porn stash would come in handy one day

Might be time to break out the VHS cassettes again.

[barrydidit]

I knew an old fashioned porn stash would come in handy one day