Comment by 0cf8612b2e1e
12 hours ago
These platforms are doing something wildly more exotic than I imagined. 1500 clients?! You could have hosted larger crowds in IRC with 90s hardware.
12 hours ago
These platforms are doing something wildly more exotic than I imagined. 1500 clients?! You could have hosted larger crowds in IRC with 90s hardware.
Need there be a further explanation than the vastly higher amounts (and size of) images and video that users are constantly posting?
I would imagine the images and video are mostly processed on the users' machines/browsers though.