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ICYMI: One Year: The Spot
FromSlate Culture
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison are excited to share an episode from One Year: 1995, a Slate podcast focused on telling a series of stories from 1995, ones which we may have forgotten or that merit reexamination. In “The Spot,” producer Evan Chung tells the story of what can be best described as the first internet soap opera.
“The Spot” follows a small group of creators who, through a series of interconnected blog posts, inspired one of the earliest instances of online fandom. It’s a story about online creativity, parasocial relationships, and how not everything on the internet lasts forever—the exact sort of story that we’d feature on ICYMI if we’d been making this podcast in 1995.
Find One Year: 1995 wherever you get you podcasts.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“The Spot” follows a small group of creators who, through a series of interconnected blog posts, inspired one of the earliest instances of online fandom. It’s a story about online creativity, parasocial relationships, and how not everything on the internet lasts forever—the exact sort of story that we’d feature on ICYMI if we’d been making this podcast in 1995.
Find One Year: 1995 wherever you get you podcasts.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Dec 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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