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Small comment on your thoughtful post: I grew up when Art Bell was on overnight and it was always exciting for me to find someone else who listened to his show!
by prometheus76 4y ago
Small comment on your thoughtful post: I grew up when Art Bell was on overnight and it was always exciting for me to find someone else who listened to his show! We would have many things to talk about and it was a fun audience to be a part of. That kind of community-creation around a subject matter has moved to the internet, which is good in some ways, because the "community" grows more there and has farther reach, but is quite sad in many ways as well, because those spontaneous moments of running into someone else who was a fan and having a great conversation about it are largely gone now.
- ddingus 4y agoArt Bell, KGO, TalkNet, and I could go on! Bruce Williams! One AM Station where I lived actually did some stereo talk programs. Oh boy! That is probably the best voice in the car experience ever. The pre emphasis used for AM, coupled with a nice 8 to 10Khz bandwidth on better radios made people sound just great, but not tiring! Ahhhhhh age gone by now, sadly. Now, you are bang on about community and all that! Entities like Discord have shuttered forums and lists and we are losing so much!
- ddingus 4y agoSorry, I did not finish the thought. A customer crisis came up! Let's just say my kind of fire, and I am good at quenching them without too much trouble. Yes, bumping into people happens a lot less and differently than it did then. It does still happen, but I think the big difference is in how more fragmented it all is now. And maybe that is the biggest change those of us missing out today tend to crave.