Bit, byte, bitten
Bit, byte, bitten - the computer magazine in the Zündfunk was a long-term series on computer technology and culture in the Zündfunk of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (BR). It was launched on October 7, 1985 , making it the first computer broadcast on German-speaking radio, even before Chippie , the hr2 computer magazine. In 1994 Bit, byte, bitten was renamed Fatal Digital . At the end of December 1999, the BR stopped the series.
history
Bit, byte, bitten goes back to an idea of the journalist Maximilian Schönherr and the then head of the "Jugendfunk" editorial team at BR, Christoph Lindenmeyer . The working title was: Zündfunk Terminal - Computers attack . Feature director Nikolai von Koslowski invented the final title in 1984 . On September 8, 1984, the two-hour prototype for the later series ran. Among other things, Chris Hülsbeck composed a four-part piece live on the C64 home computer. The trigger for the computer magazine was the boom in games and later home computers among young people in the early 1980s. The series started in 1985 as a weekly corner of short articles and, due to the great response, grew into the half-hour format after a few weeks. It was the first ARD radio broadcast of this kind. Schönherr was editor and presenter until September 1993. Then Oliver Buschek took over the series.
In 1994 the editorial team changed the name: From the bit, byte, bitten, reminiscent of the home computer era - the computer magazine in the Zündfunk first became Fatal Digital - the computer magazine , then in January 1998 Fatal Digital - computer, communication, commerce . At the end of December 1999, Zündfunk stopped the series.
Bit, byte, bitten was conceptually very different from the school radio that was still widespread at the time . It did not see itself as an “explanatory magazine” for those ignorant of computers, nor as a tinkering room for fans of the soldering iron, but rather as a guide through a newly emerging subculture. The series, comprising almost 400 episodes, fulfilled a kind of chronicler's duty, in which a number of topics emerged as leitmotifs over the years: hacking and copying , data protection , computer games , programming , supercomputers and networking through e-mail and chat . Summarizing focus broadcasts took place at the Zündfunks feature broadcasting point and were called computer happenings .
Regular guests were members of the Chaos Computer Club and its southern German counterpart, the group around the Bayrische Hackerpost , the FIfF , data protection officers, programmers and young people who chatted live in the studio via modem with the then few "networked" people. The short story series "Jefferson's Computer Nights" ran as an irregular element, in which a programmer who was always sleepy lived with a woman who watched over her lover's digital antics even while she was asleep.
Web links
- br-online: The Zündfunk Hall of Fame: The first computer magazine ( Memento from August 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- Recording of a broadcast (without music) from May 22, 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ The topics were typical for the first 10 years of the series. See the description in the Wiki Commons
- ↑ Maximilian Schönherr had meanwhile joined the team in Cologne which, under the leadership of Edgar Forschbach, editor-in-chief for science, and Manfred Kloiber, the journalist, launched the weekly research series - Computer and Communication on Deutschlandfunk .
