Cities including San Francisco are telling residents to stay home, contributing to increased use of video chats and other online communications.Cities including San Francisco are telling residents to stay home, contributing to increased use of video chats and other online communications.More people are shifting to the digital world as life outside the home is put on hold.
"They shifted to doing more online chat, more video streaming, which almost doubled in those in those countries," said Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure and security company.Visits to news sites went up as much as 60%. And people are spending more time playing online games.
It's almost like we should have all had gigabite services, and universal healthcare 5-10 years ago.
Better than more people getting sick.
Last thing we need is an internet blackout now.
Strained broadband networks? Now there's the kind of problem we know we can solve--and with long-term economic benefits.
On this episode is 'it's almost like everything has consequences'
Sudden surge in Pelaton traffic
It is bulls***. Someone or something is trying to use bioterrorism reset, re-engineer our social interactions! This is a great time to dust off and read your old copy of '1984' by GeorgeOrwell for parallels to come.
But it really hasn't. I am online working and streaming video all day. Suddenly the slowness is gone. No more buffering. Seems like they had the capability all along, but wanted to see who would pay their way out.
Interesting. Noticed Google Duo was slower than normal today.
netneutrality
I usually work from home... Today I noticed quiet a few glitches in teleconferences...