In 1998 you couldn't even stream a music video over the internet.
In 2012 you can stream the entire game of Quake 2 through your browser in under 5 minutes. If you told me this while I was installing Quake 2 through my CD-ROM and waiting 30 minutes for it to finish, my head would have exploded.
http://playwebgl.com/games/quake-2-webgl/