May 23rd, 2024 marks the 4th anniversary of the first commit of Owncast, aptly titled: “WIP”. WIP It was a bit before exactly four years ago when I actually started working on it in earnest, but not that far before. I remember duct taping a proof of concept together, opening my laptop’s web port to the public internet, messaging somebody and asking “Could you open this URL in VLC or QuickTime or something?
