What is "Streaming"?

What is "Streaming"?

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Streaming usually comes into play when you're talking about serving video or audio over the Internet. Streaming means that the piece of video or audio is put in a different location, and instead of you downloading every single bit of that movie, it just plays as it goes. It's a smaller amount of information that's sent over the Internet, so you can watch it faster.