From efischer@illinois.edu Sat Jan 06 22:30:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!efischer From: efischer@illinois.edu (Elaine Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan06.223014.6820@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 22:30:14 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Elaine Fischer "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Acorn RiscPC 600 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From grodriguez@purdue.edu Mon Jan 08 02:49:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!grodriguez From: grodriguez@purdue.edu (Graham Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan08.024914.8649@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 02:49:14 GMT References: <1996Jan06.223014.6820@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan06.223014.6820@illinois.edu>, efischer@illinois.edu (Elaine Fischer) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- === Graham Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tito@mit.edu Mon Jan 08 12:56:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!tito From: tito@mit.edu (Takeshi Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan08.125614.7646@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 12:56:14 GMT References: <1996Jan06.223014.6820@illinois.edu> <1996Jan08.024914.8649@purdue.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan08.024914.8649@purdue.edu>, grodriguez@purdue.edu (Graham Rodríguez) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Takeshi Ito === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "We don't sign stars. We build them."