{"id":44,"date":"2004-09-19T21:01:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=44"},"modified":"2004-09-19T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T01:41:47","slug":"wxyc-10-years-on-the-net-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wxyc-10-years-on-the-net-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"WXYC &#8211; 10 years on the Net approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a great time <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.indstate.edu\/CU-SeeMe\/devl_archives\/sep_94\/0019.html\">going back to the email from 10 years back<\/a> when we plotted to put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyc.org\/\">WXYC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyc.org\/about\/first\/\">on the net 7\/24<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyc.org\/about\/first\/golden.html\">Mike Shoffner <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyc.org\/about\/first\/guardian.html\">David McConville<\/a> did all the work with help from Jonathan Magid and Chris Columb, but I got to be involved too. The biggest problem wasn&#8217;t the technologies available &#8212; we knew what we had sucked but were willing to try anyway (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuworld.com\/\">CUSeeMe<\/a> the new product is probably better but we&#8217;re talking low low bandwidth in those days) &#8212; but that we were stiffled for a few months by legal concerns. No one had ever done a constant simultaneous net.cast of a radio station so no one knew what libilities we might enounter. In fact, the guy who was most experienced, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/2.07\/streetcred.html?pg=17\">Internet Talk Radio&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/media.org\/carl.html\">Carl Malamud<\/a>, told us that it wasn&#8217;t possible to do what we wanted to do legally. Luckily David was not convinced and found that college stations could put a signal on a wire &#8212; this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegebroadcasters.org\/cctech.shtml\">the famous carrier current radio that college stations without antennae used in the 60s.<\/a><br \/>\nThen we hit the IETF streaming folks,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyc.org\/about\/first\/templeton.html\"> like Brad Templeton who didn&#8217;t find it rec.funny at all<\/a>, (more on this later and I hope to get some snips from old emails up too.)<\/p>\n<p>My favorite artifact is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyc.org\/about\/first\/drs3.html\">this recording of a Swiss radio station trying to listen to WXYC in early 1995.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a great time going back to the email from 10 years back when we plotted to put WXYC on the net 7\/24. Mike Shoffner and David McConville did all the work with help from Jonathan Magid and Chris Columb, but I got to be involved too. The biggest problem wasn&#8217;t the technologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}