• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

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

          It’s the spirit I would want to emulate.