This is in nearly every TV series that mentions YouTube pre-2020
I’ve been using the Internet since about 2014 and I just have never heard of anyone seriously calling them “hits”. The TV series never refer to them as views or likes. It’s always something like “the video got 80,000 hits”
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Yeah. It predates Youtube, people would talk about visits to a website like that too.
“Hit” was more of a general term for visiting any particular page. If 10,000 people visited, whether it was text or a video, you got 10,000 hits.
It was around before YouTube.
I still do that….
Wait, that’s not still a thing?
Yes, I remember this. It wasn’t that long ago that they said hits. I remember them saying this in 2017.
Hits was the original term for web site visits, right back to the beginning of the web in 1992.
I remember a site I helped set up back then. The first time we managed a million hits a month we all went to the pub to celebrate. Times have moved on since then 😉
Yes.
Yeah I’m an old, so this sounds familiar. I guess even “regular” websites say views or visits now.
yeah, my Gen X father calls them hits.
It said views on YouTube since the day it launched. Some may have said hits, but views was more popular. Hits was more early Internet website page views.
Not just YouTube. “Hits” used to be the generic term for every time a webpage is accessed. So you would say like “Google gets a billion hits a day” or what have you.
Like almost every expression in the English language, I’m going to assume it came from baseball in some way
Still do