The Strange World of Internet Ghost Towns

[techristian]

Every now and then I'll look for something on the internet and instead of getting a 404 or a redirect, I'll end up at a site that looks like it was just...abandoned. For example, in answering the thread about online jamming, I wanted to see what digitalmusician.net was up to. It was kind of like stepping through the ruins of an old mining town...the forum had most recent posts as a couple years ago, although amazingly, there was a forlorn post from 12 weeks ago asking if there would ever be a 64-bit version of the collaboration plug-in..

 

 

Would the hair stand up on the back of your neck if someone actually wanted to "chat" with you at one of those old forums ?

 

Dan

 

[philboking]

Another side of the coin - here is a very active 'site' that celebrates a long-dead radio show.

 

There is a very large and thriving Facebook group that celebrates Clyde Clifford's music show Beaker Street on KAAY in Little Rock.

 

This show ended in the early or mid 70s, but it was seminal in introducing tens of thousands of people to album rock way before it was predominant on the FM band.

 

They even produce new radio shows, which air for an hour or two on one of our local college stations (KCCK, Cedar Rapids).

[bookumdano4]

Ha, I still have reel-to-reel tapes from 1968-69 of Beaker Street. I would tape hours and hours of it. Those KAAY days were such a hoot.... er.... cosmic. If it weren't for Clyde, I never would have heard "Machines" by Lothar and the Hand People, "Lather" and "Triad" by the Airplane, "Under the Ice" by Nazz, the Amboy Dukes stuff, and a zillion other cool things.