Post #2716912
2026-03-21 17:52 UTC
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@andybaio@xoxo.zone 2026-03-21 18:23
Ze Frank's The Show was self-hosted QuickTime videos on a blog with comments and an RSS feed. A community forum, wiki, and series of interactive web pages tied it all together. Social media was a bunch of blogs linking to each other. Facebook opened to everyone in September of that year, Google bought YouTube in November, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in January 2007. Twitter blew up at SXSW in March and iPhone came out in June, the beginning of the end for the dominant open social web.
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@Norgg@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 18:04
@andybaio@xoxo.zone both things I liked at the time but which had unfortunate consequences, Twitter moreso than The Show making everyone use jumpcuts too much in short videos but
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@davew@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 18:16
@andybaio@xoxo.zone my blog 20 years ago today. http://scripting.com/2006/03/21.html
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@invadersil@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 18:51
@andybaio@xoxo.zone Ze Frank is my jam! I still watch him today with his nature videos.
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@bascule@mas.to 2026-03-21 23:58
@andybaio@xoxo.zone sports racers! Racing sports! Show me your power move! I’ve still got my ducky. Ze Frank was amazing at the time. Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do I do I do chika quack quack!
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@andymcmillan@xoxo.zone 2026-03-22 02:54
@andybaio@xoxo.zone I will never forget the one time I met him after he spoke at an event in Dublin and I told him Wagamama was better than any ramen in L.A (I had never been to L.A) and he immediately stopped talking to me and walked out of the bar