Those who can recall the very earliest days of streaming in the mid-1990s might remember anxiously tapping a finger on their mouse while content buffered. Many with slower internet connections would spend more time watching the content download than actually watching the content.
Technology innovations, though, quickly led to increased commercialization investment in the internet, ushering in a new era of available bandwidth that infinitely improved access to audio and video by the early days of the 21st century.