The Story of VLC: How a Traffic Cone Took Over the World
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1. It All Started Because a School Network Sucked 1.1 The Real Origin Story (Not What You Think) Back in 1996 , at École Centrale Paris —one of France's fanciest engineering schools—the campus Token Ring network was slower than a snail on tranquilizers . Students couldn't play games, couldn't transfer files, couldn't do anything fun. Most people would just complain. But these students thought: "What if we built something so bandwidth-hungry that the school would have to fix the network just to k