Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "streaming" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "streaming" over time.
Streaming media is the method by which multimedia is delivered through a network for playback using a media player. Media is transferred in a stream of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time or near real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. Read more on Wikipedia