From nwatanabe@rwth-aachen.de Sun Nov 12 05:45:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!nwatanabe From: nwatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Natalia Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 05:45:40 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Natalia Watanabe | nwatanabe@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 2DDC 4956 84F2 062D "Keep the channels open." From ogirard@earthlink.net Mon Nov 13 10:00:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!earthlink!ogirard From: ogirard@earthlink.net (Olga Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Nov13.100040.4330@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 10:00:40 GMT References: <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de>, nwatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Natalia Watanabe) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Olga Girard *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From teriksson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Nov 13 13:45:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!teriksson From: teriksson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Thiago Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Nov13.134540.4063@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 13:45:40 GMT References: <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de>, nwatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Natalia Watanabe) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Thiago Eriksson | teriksson@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 5FE5 F6D6 65FC 6A3A "Keep the channels open." From ksuzuki@cern.ch Tue Nov 14 10:02:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!ksuzuki From: ksuzuki@cern.ch (Katrin Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Nov14.100240.8932@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 10:02:40 GMT References: <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov12.054540.3867@rwth-aachen.de>, nwatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Natalia Watanabe) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Katrin Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0