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Light pretending to move, fooling your brain thirty times a second.

means Moving visual images, whether recorded, broadcast, or streamed, that play back as footage on a screen.

from Straight from Latin, where video simply means "I see" — first person singular of videre, "to see." It was coined in the 1930s as the visual counterpart to "audio" (Latin "I hear"), so the two halves of a screen experience each carry a tiny Latin confession: I see, I hear.

name originLatin for I see, coined to mirror audio
first youtubeEighteen seconds of a guy at the zoo
bandwidth kingOver eighty percent of internet traffic is video
persistence trickMotion exists only inside your visual cortex
oldest survivorRoundhay Garden Scene, filmed in 1888
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