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[[Image:Museum_fossilized_internet_socks_streaming_2326.jpg|500px]] | |||
''Wool, fabric, wood, glue'' | ''Wool, fabric, wood, glue'' | ||
In 2020 online video, gaming and multimedia represented 82% of all global IP traffic. Netflix was the biggest company offering video on demand services | In 2020 online video, gaming and multimedia represented [https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/index.html 82%] of all global IP traffic. Netflix was the biggest company offering video on demand services. | ||
These companies opted to serve their content continuously and uninterrupted, often by utilising autoplay functionality, so much so that Netflix bought out their own line of [http://makeit.netflix.com/projects/socks socks] that detected when the viewer had fallen asleep and automatically paused the show they were watching. Video on demand services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu generated the [https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-02.pdf same volume] of greenhouse gas emissions as the country of Chile. | |||
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To give some perspective, the hit music video for the now classic song “Despacito” had five billion views on YouTube. To generate this kind of energy it would either take [https://www.ft.com/content/779c1102-2d2b-11e8-97ec-4bd3494d5f14 850,000 barrels of oil] or 93 wind turbines running for an entire year. | |||
==Barry and Alexa, 2020== | ==Barry and Alexa, 2020== | ||