From 0511a2d4a2c511356d7fd6889f17efaa648601bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 06:46:56 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] initial commits --- README.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f07e808..ef82115 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -48,17 +48,29 @@ The era: 2010 to 2018 The era: 2007 to 2010 -**Show in a Box**, often initialized to as “**SIAB**”, was the first open-source social-media software for video. +Back then, video on the Internet and the Web was just starting to be practical — it wasn't before. + +**Show in a Box**, often initialized to as “**SIAB**”, was the first open-source social-media software for video — and it was **decentralized** social-media software. In this era, both _decentralized_ social-media networks and _centralized_ social-media networks were popular. -MySpace was a popular _centralized_ social-media network in this era — it had a lot to do with why another _centralized_ social-media network, YouTube, initially got popular. -Although, back then, YouTube was mainly used as a way of sharing videos on MySpace — because it was the only free video hosting website that supported playing video in (a non defunct technology known as) Flash. +The centralized social-media network Twitter was _not_ popular yet, and was just getting started — at the time it was mainly populated by very early adopters. +MySpace was the popular _centralized_ social-media network in this era — it had a lot to do with why another _centralized_ social-media network, YouTube, initially got popular. +Although, back then, YouTube was mainly used as a way of sharing videos on MySpace (as an embed on MySpace) — because it was the only free video hosting website that supported playing video in (a non defunct technology known as) Flash. +MySpace's decline later led to the rise of yet another cenralized social-media network: Facebook. -A popular **decentralized** social-media network, in this era, was what was then called the **blogosphere** — the network of **weblogs** (often shorterned as “blogs“). +A popular **decentralized** social-media network, in this era, was what was then called the **blogosphere** — the distributed network of **weblogs** (often shorterned as “blogs“). Although during this era, there was still some debate (that began in the late 1990s) over whether to call these “**web-logs**”, or “**web-journals**”, or “**web-diaries**”. As the story goes — “**web-log**” won, got concatenated as “**weblog**”, someone (not knowing “**weblog**” = “**web**” + “**log**”) thought it was a concatenation for “**we**” + “**blog**” and shortened it to “**blog**”. +Many people had wanted to do **video** over the Internet, and then the Web for years (if not decades). +As **blogs** rose as a popular form of social-media, some people wanted to do **video** over **blogs**. +A community was formed around this idea via a mailing-list — the **VideoBlogging Mailing List**. +The mailing-list attracted many people interested in video on the Internet and the Web. + +A conference related to the **VideoBlogging Mailing List** mailing-list was created — Vloggercon. +(More on that later.) + ## Vloggercon ## Vlog