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YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format.

Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format:

I suppose if you uploaded a recording of that to YouTube you could do a similar thing, although I can't seem to find any examples at the moment.

> YouTube is essentially "free file storage", just for a very specific file format.

Right. A platform for audio/video or in this case extremely inefficient file storage.

> Some software for the ZX Spectrum was distributed in a similar fashion, by being broadcast in audio format:

That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!

Netflix did just that for an easter egg in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

There is some audio at the end that can be read into a ZX Spectrum emulator.