• Ejh3k@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Wait until you learn about the WTTW max headroom broadcast takeover back in the 90s. That shit was wild as hell.

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      7 months ago

      I knew about that, it was weird to me because I didn’t know it was emulating MaxHeadroom.

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    7 months ago

    TIL of Max Headroom

    I feel so old now. That character was impossible to escape in the late 80’s. Max was everywhere. A TV show, coke ads, blockbuster movie cameos, etc.

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    I loved Max Headroom as a kid. It was so ahead of it’s time that maybe now, in the 2020’s, it finally fits in.

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    Fun fact, the effect of Max Headroom was done completely analogue with make-up and bluescreen since CG barely existed yet.

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    Max Headroom as an idea completely fascinates me. I dream of someday being wealthy enough to engage in a Kaufman esque campaign reviving the spirit of Max Headroom. Like, I live the idea of Max, and especially the potential he has as an idea.

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      It’s was relatively easy and within reach of many people to do so back then. It took a bit of technical know how, don’t money and you could hijack done TV signals and send out a signal that people could see.

      Now it would probably take a good amount of money, lots of skill, lots of knowledge and lots of people in coordination to hack a site or service to try to reach out to a small corner of the internet. Everything is locked down now … sure they can be bypassed and hacked … it just takes far more effort and skill and money than it did 30 years ago.

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        I think you’re confusing Max Headroom with the “Max Headroom signal hijacking incident”

        Max Headroom was a real character who was used in TV shows and commercials, etc.

        The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident was where someone hijacked a broadcast in Chicago with a video of someone dressed up as Max Headroom.

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          I think an identical spirit embodied both the show and the stunt.

          It’s the spirit I would want to emulate.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    My interest in the show peaked when I found out about the old cable hack that used him while also coincidentally being on a Matt Frewer kick with movies and TV.

    I’ve found a few things, but I came to learn what I have seen was the inferior, later version of the show that didn’t understand the anti-corpotate satire and turned it into an utter shitshow. I really would like to see the original version of the show in its entirety. The clips I have seen are way better than the version I downloaded.

    Some of those stunts pulled during live events would be shocking today, and they were saying it back in the 80’s!

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    The TV show was fascinating! And I remember loving the music, too. Matt Frewer was just fascinating as, was it Edison Carter? And as Max. Really clever concepts!