Timeline of online video

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This is a timeline of online video, meaning streaming media delivered over the Internet.

Overview

Time period Key developments in online video web sight
1974–1992 Development of practical video coding standards. The development of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) lossy compression method leads to the first practical video formats, H.261 and MPEG, initially used for online video conferencing.
1993–2004 Early days of the World Wide Web. Several container formats for streaming the first videos are released. Some sites, like Newgrounds, heavily rely on these container formats to display online video. Due to quality issues caused by low bandwidth and bad latency, very little streaming video existed on the World Wide Web until 2002 when VHS quality video with reliable lip sync became possible.
2005–2010 Mass-streaming services like YouTube and Netflix become massively popular for streaming online video. Broadband penetration increases, allowing significant fractions of the population to stream online video. Macromedia Flash is the most popular format for displaying online video, as it is used by YouTube and many other sites.
2011–2016 HTML5 starts to displace Flash. Live streaming becomes increasingly popular, especially in the form of services like Twitch. Many social media startups integrate the streaming of short segments of video, like Vine and Keek. These are, in turn, integrated into the most popular services like Instagram and Facebook.

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
1993 May 22 Technology Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees, originally released in 1991, is the first film to be streamed on the Internet. Due to bandwidth limitations, it is broadcast at 2 frames per second rather than the standard 24 frames per second. It was watched by a number of people at computer laboratories.[1]
1995 September 5 Technology ESPN SportsZone streams a live radio broadcast of a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees to thousands of its subscribers worldwide using cutting-edge technology, using the RealAudio format, developed by a Seattle-based startup company named RealNetworks – the first livestreaming event.[2]
1995 Technology Macromedia releases Shockwave Player for Netscape Navigator, which becomes the primary format of streaming media for the late 1990s and 2000s (along with Flash Player, until it is gradually supplanted by HTML5).[3]
1997 September 5 Technology World Superstars of Wrestling, Inc. partnered with software maker VDO and Webstar (ISP), under Scott Crompton and George Zhen, broadcasting one of the first video based websites. Shot on location in Tampa Bay, Florida, Matsuda and Brody produced six one hour episodes, dubbed the first webisodes with hosts Gordon Solie and Bruno Sammartino. Sir Oliver Humperdink did an interview segment with various wrestling personalities such as Dan "The Beast" Severn, Danny Spivey and others. With the Internet in such an infancy, technology and bandwidth could not support the endeavor so the broadcast only lasted the six episodes. Unofficially, Ring Warriors was the first television show to be broadcast on the Internet.[4]
1997 Companies ShareYourWorld.com, a predecessor to YouTube, is founded by Chase Norlin, and is subsequently shut down in 2001.[5]
1998 Companies Marc Collins-Rector and his partner Jim Shackley founded Digital Entertainment Network, which was to deliver original episodic video content over the Internet aimed at niche audiences. The startup collapsed after Collins-Rector’s legal troubles in 2000.[6]
1998 October Technology MPEG-4, a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data, is introduced.[7][8][9][10][11]
1999 Technology Microsoft introduces streaming feature in Windows Media Player 6.4. It introduces the ASF file format, which allows storage of multiple video and audio tracks inside a single file. It also introduces Windows Media streaming protocols that support switching streams during broadcast. This technology is most commonly referred to as Multiple Bit Rate ASF, or simply MBR.[12]
1999 June Technology Apple introduces a streaming media format in its QuickTime 4 application.[13]
2000 Product SpotLife is released for recorded and live video content.[14]
2002 October Technology Adaptive bit rate over HTTP is created by the DVD Forum at the WG1 Special Streaming group.
2003 May Technology The On2 TrueMotion VP6 codec is released.[15]
2004 June Products

References

  1. ↑ Markoff, John (1993-05-24). "Cult Film Is a First On Internet". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  2. ↑ Zambelli, Alex (March 2013). "A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV". The Guardian. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Adobe Shockwave Player Download Free for Windows". Softnavy.com. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ Zambelli, Alex (March 2013). "A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV". The Guardian. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ "First Video Sharing Site Paved the Way for YouTube — ShareYourWorld.com Was There First to Launch Ten Years Back – Beet.TV". Beet.TV - The Root to the Media Revolution. 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
  6. ↑ Los Angeles Times
  7. ↑ ISO/IEC (2004-11-15), ISO/IEC 14496-1:2004 – Third edition 2004-11-15 – Information technology — Coding of audio-visual objects — Part 1: Systems (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-31, retrieved 2010-04-11
  8. ↑ WG11 (MPEG) (March 2002). "Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard". Retrieved 2010-04-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ WG11 (1997-11-21), Text for CD 14496-1 Systems (MS Word .doc), retrieved 2010-04-11{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "MPEG-4 Systems Elementary Stream Management (ESM)". July 2001. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
  11. ↑ "MPEG Systems (1-2-4-7) FAQ, Version 17.0". July 2001. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
  12. ↑ "A Brief History of Multi-Bitrate Streaming". Alexzambelli.com. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Timeline of QuickTime Updates at the Apple Museum". Retrieved January 8, 2007.
  14. ↑ spotlife.com (2000-05-10) Internet Archive, Retrieved on 2021-06-08
  15. ↑ CNET News (2003-05-13) On2 blows trumpet for new codec, Retrieved on 2009-08-17
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