Editing Streaming media (section)

=== Late 1990s to early 2000s ===
{{See also|Original net animation}}

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, users had increased access to computer networks, especially the Internet. During the early 2000s, users had access to increased network [[Bandwidth (signal processing)|bandwidth]], especially in the [[Last mile (telecommunications)|last mile]]. These technological improvements facilitated the streaming of audio and video content to computer users in their homes and workplaces. There was also an increasing use of standard protocols and formats, such as [[TCP/IP]], [[HTTP]], and [[HTML]], as the Internet became increasingly commercialized, which led to an infusion of investment into the sector.

The band [[Severe Tire Damage (band)|Severe Tire Damage]] was the first group to perform live on the Internet. On 24 June 1993, the band was playing a gig at [[Xerox PARC]], while elsewhere in the building, scientists were discussing new technology (the [[Mbone]]) for broadcasting on the Internet using [[multicast]]ing. As proof of PARC's technology, the band's performance was broadcast and could be seen live in Australia and elsewhere. In a March 2017 interview, band member Russ Haines stated that the band had used approximately "half of the total bandwidth of the internet" to stream the performance, which was a {{resx|152|76}} pixel video, updated eight to twelve times per second, with audio quality that was, "at best, a bad telephone connection."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRa2pE5-Ny0 "History of the Internet Pt. 1 – The First Live Stream"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129023330/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRa2pE5-Ny0&gl=US&hl=en |date=29 January 2019 }}. Via YouTube. Internet Archive – Stream Division. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.</ref> In October 1994, a school music festival was webcast from the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, New Zealand. The technician who arranged the webcast, local council employee Richard Naylor, later commented: "We had 16 viewers in 12 countries."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Newman |first1=Keith |title=Connecting the Clouds: The Internet in New Zealand |date=2008 |publisher=Activity Press |location=Auckland |isbn=978-0-9582634-4-3 |page=90}}</ref>

[[RealNetworks]] pioneered the broadcast of a baseball game between the [[New York Yankees]] and the [[Seattle Mariners]] over the Internet in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/RealNetworks-Inc-Company-History.html |publisher=Funding Universe |title=RealNetworks Inc. |access-date=23 July 2011 |archive-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711054958/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/RealNetworks-Inc-Company-History.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The first symphonic concert on the Internet—a collaboration between the [[Seattle Symphony]] and guest musicians [[Slash (musician)|Slash]], [[Matt Cameron]], and [[Barrett Martin]]—took place at the [[Paramount Theatre (Seattle, Washington)|Paramount Theater]] in [[Seattle]], Washington, on 10&nbsp;November 1995.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Cyberian Rhapsody |magazine=Billboard |location= United States|publisher= Lynne Segall|date=17 February 1996}}</ref>

In 1996, [[Marc Scarpa]] produced the first large-scale, online, live broadcast, the [[Adam Yauch]]–led [[Tibetan Freedom Concert]], an event that would define the format of social change broadcasts. Scarpa continued to pioneer in the streaming media world with projects such as [[Woodstock '99]], Townhall with [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|President Clinton]], and more recently Covered CA's campaign "Tell a Friend Get Covered", which was livestreamed on YouTube.