On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:27:17 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> Wasn't the world's first "webcam" a camera in some university ward so
> they could watch the coffee pot?

That sounds familiar.  Whether it's true or not, though, I've no idea 
offhand.

>> Definitely worth it, IMHO.
> 
> Even for somebody who doesn't watch TV?

Do you watch movies?  I hear they have those available as well. ;)

>>> (I'm still puzzled as to why YouTube can actually exist. But that's
>>> another story.)
>>
>> People want to publish videos.  Youtube gives them a platform to do
>> that.
>>
>> And gives Google another platform to push advertising on.
>>
>> It's about that simple, really. :)
> 
> No, I mean... why is it possible for one company to ever buy enough
> harddisks to store even 0.01% of the data that YouTube holds? It seems
> like there shouldn't be enough mass storage devices on Earth to hold
> this much data...

And yet there are, so maybe you're not aware either of the totality of 
mass storage available in the world, or the way in which the content is 
stored in order to account for the amount of data involved.

But that's just a guess. ;)

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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