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On this day in 1990 Jim Henson died. Did you notice the Henson poster n Brief 561 http://www.geekbrief.tv/gbtv-56... from the Apple Think Different campaign?
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just noticed this myself...nice!
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Today is the 11th anniversary of the launch of TechTV. R.I.P.
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I still miss it. :(
- Eva
I really miss TechTV, It was a great channel!
- Chuck Drake
I miss it too, Leo. TWiT on, dude.
- Steve Smyth
I miss it as well. In specific Screensavers. Never missed it.
- Juan Hernandez
My favs were Call for Help, Screensavers & Fresh Gear...
- Bwana ☠
Good to see Sumi Das on Fine living doing the gadget thing still
- Bwana ☠
I miss old school TechTV. Call For Help and Screensavers were great!
- John Burke
Man, I miss ZDTV/TechTV so much. I learned so much watching the original Call for Help and Screensavers shows.
- Matt Thompson
Wow 11 years? I was 13... time flies
- Shawnee
The only problem with TechTV was that there was your show then about 11 hours of bull shit.
- Logan Hall
I learned so much from Call for Help and the Screensavers. TWiT is the best.
- Nestor
I don't miss the FilterFresh coffee, the Cafe Moda prices, or the unccoperative building security. But that's about it.
- Tom Merritt
I miss the old screen savers!! It was the reason I got the extra channels from comcast.
- Shawn Taylor
Now we have Leo TV. Can there be too much of a good thing? No.
- Daniel Buckley
I had the pleasure of working with some of the talent from the shows during the TechTV Digital Digs tour a few years back. Good Times!
- Mark Gifford
i have a picture with you and Patrick from one of the events. and also a TechTV laptop bag. :)
- John Wang
Daniel if you can't stop watching you could be addicted to the life of leo :P
- FW
today as in May 11 or May 12?
- David Damore
Friends of mine, who I didn't know at the time, and I still talk about watching the Screensavers in early high school, and how it turned us to a life of geek.
- Nick Ciervo
My husband and I still miss it. Please bring it back (or convince CNET to do so. *sniff*
- Helen Sventitsky
from twhirl
TechTV > g4tv
- JT
Screen Savers should be on NBC at 8PM!
- William
Ah yeah, the good ol' days. I still miss the screensavers and x-play (yes, I know it's still on, but it's been f'd over by G4 to the point of being unwatchable) So many great memories of screen savers when it was live... I still laugh at patrick + hammer + IBM glass substrate disk drive = kaboom. :))
- Chris Abbey
Dang, I'm still mourning the loss of "The Site."
- Sue Radd
I still wait for the resurrection!!!
- Scott Graham
I found Tech TV on Dish Network in the Fall of 1998. I loved Tech TV. Then G4 killed it. But Leo and Revision 3 recreated it.
- George Brickner
I miss Tech TV. Best television for its day.
- Ken Barrango
Shawn: Same here. Also got extra channels so I could watch Tech TV.
- Sue Radd
Ahh, good times, good times.
- Gordon Alley
Foxtel had it in Oz for about 8 months before it was canned by G4. Was certainly a staple.
- clearcut
According to that, I must have been 8 when it launched and didn't get it until 2001 I believe. I truly thank you guys for helping me go forward with my tech interest. Thanks Leo and the TechTV'ers! TSS and Call for Help forever! :D
- Chris
dang! i was 6, 11 years ago! that's when it all started for me! becoming and developing into the tech nerd i am today! has it really been that fast?!
- Kevin
Why, in this day of MTV8, Food2, and Military History Channel, can we not have something the even resembles TechTV. I got the "expanded digital" package from Comcast way back in the day just for TechTV. Wasn't Chris Pirillo and you working to get something similar onto the interwebs?
- Antonio Yon
Still Leo, I think the TechTV crowd has truly moved on to many good things though, between TWiT, Revision3, and others.
- Chris
Those were the day I reminisce. Screen Savers was the best.
- William Doom
sad, but i enjoy the content the ex-tech tvers are putting out more than anything they could release on a cable network
- TenderLovePony
R.I.P indeed. It encouraged and helped to shape my geekyness into what it is today. :(
- Crystal Tillman
Dev Null, Dont worry, Tech tv had babies and one which we love is Twit Tv!
- Josef
Well we know the last day of ZDTV when was the First?
- Heath J.
I miss TechTV. It was on channel 64 here and when we got YES network (which I love) TechTV got dropped from the lineup. Then Comcast bought them and killed it...ugh it's good to see the stars from there made their own sites and continue the tech talk online.
- Michael Coogan
I miss it every day... and have the sticker to show my love: http://twitpic.com/50tdo
- grungyparadigm
Wow, that is a long time ago now. I never got to see many of those shows, but what I saw I remember well.
- Micah Wittman
Loved TechTV. Screensavers ruled.
- Jerry Longbine
I miss TechTV. :'(
- Her Lindsay-ness
Used to watch all the time. RIP indeed.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
::tear::
- Amber, Random Time Lord
and nothing can ever replace it
- Joseph
I miss Tech TV so much. I miss the Screen Savers, Call for Help, and other shows that aired on Tech TV.
- Sreyeesh
While I like the old TechTV/ZDNet shows, I like what's replaced it just fine. Long live the TWiT Network!
- Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy
You know, up until recently I'd actually forgotten about it. Thank goodness my Dad had DirectTV back then, I was able to watch it even in Westhope ND, of all places..
- J L Ford
But what would I listen to in the car if Tech TV hadn't died?
- Matt Agnello
TechTV was great, especially The Screen Savers. And the TSS Holiday marathons!!!!
- MuscleNerd
TechTV was all I watched in high school. I was so sad when G4 shredded it to pieces... Well at least now I have TWiT and revision3
- Brian Lamb
i really miss Unscrewed and all the shorter shows though i did watch TSS and C4H all the time as well, hey Leo you should let martin bring back Unscrewed and have the Swisher be his cohost, that'd be EPIC
- Will
TechTV.. It was good " Television "
- johnny
been that long?
- Daniel CerVentus
Going to drop G4tv. I barely watch it. It's just never been the same.
- Eva
I miss Screensavers and Fresh Gear, but I also love Attack of the Show. X-Play is a problem child... the talent is outstanding, but the format has been jacked with so much that it's hard to watch.
- Roger Benningfield
For a brief moment, the television taught us about it's replacement, before awakening to the reality of it's own doom. (The Screensavers was terrific!)
- Chris Cox
ZDNet/TechTv on DirectTV. Was the best, too bad they couldn't fill up 24 hours a day with programming. The Thing about the Screensavers is that it was hugely entertaining in addition to informative. Right now, TwiT is informative but doesn't have the polished feel that broadcast tv or some of the Revision3 shows have. This isn't bad, just different.
- Steve Helder
loved screen saver & call for help, we used to get it in Abu Dhabi. Was so glad when I got an ipod a few years ago that you started TWiT.
- Iain Clydesdale
Join the chorus of those who miss. Leo, from another old guy liberal arts major who worked in radio and became a self-taught techie to another, thanks for blazing the trail.
- Greg Wilson
I discovered TechTV in early 2003 when I was home recovering from some minor surgery. Got hooked on Call for Help, The ScreenSavers and Fresh Gear. I was just "learning" to make my way around the PC and these shows were incredibly helpful. I really miss those programs! Thanks to Leo for carrying on with TWiT.
- Grace Adams
I very much miss TechTV.
- Sean Brady
I was 8 at the time- it's been a while. And we should def put TSS on NBC at 9:00- better ratings than they have right now!
- Jake Bechtold
I certainly do miss a channel with the kind of programming ZDNet/TechTV carried....especially the shows you were involved with Leo. Now TWiT is the place to be!
- Chad Specht
Best. Channel. Ever.
- Chris Luckhardt
Tech TV was like porn for geeks.
- Bryan Warman
Damn you G4!
- Alex Scrivener
It was ahead of its time.
- Bill Hertzing
would be great if the old show were put on-line somewhere best dam tech tv ever!
- Alan Abentrod
I really liked the old TechTV. I watched Screen Savers regularly.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
I still remember the day I learned of the beginning of the end... all I could think was, "Poop!", and, "That Morgan Webb chick will never make it as a show host". Keep the TWiT going, Leo!
- Mike Patterson
I still to this day feel a void at 7PM my time when The Screen Savers used to come on, but I make up for it by tuning into twitlive.tv and everything feels a little better. Besides, TV was so 1999 anyways!
- Mike Lewis
I miss The Screensavers soooooooo much!
- Howard Tyson
I miss TechTv also but With it gone we are getting better content and more of it than ever. Also it is from the best. Like Leo, Patrick, Kevin, And Alex I think It was for the best
- Josh Wagner
Yeh, I miss it too but the projects coming out of that (TWIT) are terrific!!!!!!!!
- MarK
So sad, I also miss Computer Chronicles. Oops, I just aged myself!
- Brad Stolba
miss TechTV. remember coming home to watch it everyday.
- (jeff)isageek
Eventually Leo is going to make Comcast regret what they did to TechTV ... plain and simple
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Are you including the ZDTV time too? I remember watching that on C-Band satellite.
- Chuck Adams
Yeah but G4 is so much better /sarcasm
- Andrew Johnson
I would miss it, but I like TWIT and Revision3 better :).
- Mikey Rollins
Leo Laporte = Cool, Kate Botello = Hot, those were the days!
- Dan H.
I like techtv since the 1st day i got it 1-1-2000 , i miss it , if it was not for techtv (zdtv) i would have never gotten a computer
- shaun owens
We all miss the good shows that we had on TechTV
- Milford C. Hutsell III
you interviewed my daughter Kristen about a driver training software product. This guy named Ed kept warning her to check her mirrors. So now she always checks her mirrors. Ed meant well.
- bill
I still have Silicon Spin mug. Treasured.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Le *sigh*
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Never understood why G4 fired everyone at TSS, changed the name and revamped the whole show. Why not just keep TSS and start a new show?
- dthree
you all were the best.
- Nathan Brown
I so miss TSS and CFH. I also miss Silicon Spin (but Cranky Geeks makes up for it), Fresh Gear (Oh, that Jim Louderback was sooo easy on the eyes!) but seriously, I think I really miss CFH but thank G-d for TWiT.
- Anita Pesola
Whatever happened to Stewart Chiefet?
- Kenneth F Jones
I miss TechTV also Leo!
- Luke Pohr
Techtv was what got me into computers, it will always be remembered and missed.
- Hardeep
I miss Paul Block a fantastic producer for the show I knew, introduced me to everyone b4 they were "net famous".
- adolfo foronda
what great times those were...
- Scott A. Swiecki
I still miss coming home, turning on The Screen Savers and finding out the latest on Tech. Watch Fresh Gear and Call For Help... sigh... Thank God for TWiT.tv Hey leo, when will you have Cat Schwartz on TWiT?
- Arnold
g4 sucks. oh techtv i want u back.
- cliper53
My my how time flies
- John Blake
Chilling with the locals by INC (idyllic nerd commune). I love our new neighborhood!
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