WI: Internet Before Television? Also, Internet TV and Localism

If the invention of television is butterflied away, could the Internet (with computers, of course) rise to prominence as a major media format?

And then, could television develop from Internet? Like, where a "channel" would be a video stream on a website.

Could this possibly lead to more localism, in media? Like, more locally owned and operated news channels, which barely anybody watch IOTL.
 
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