One of the creators of RTMP will take you back to a time before Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, when Internet Explorer was used by 92% of people on the Web, and over 98% of browsers had Flash installed. RTMP was first prototyped in late 1999 and released in July 2002. Sarah Allen will share the untold story of the origins of this protocol — careful design choices and unexpected hacks that led to a de-facto standard that still drives the majority of live web video today.
Presented at Demuxed 2019 in San Francisco.