Collaborate Disseminate
On November 22, 1987, someone hacked two local news broadcasts in Chicago to show Max Headroom. The hacker’s motive and identity has never been discovered. Continue reading Television’s Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later
Those of you with long memories and a compulsive TV viewing habit might remember [Max Headroom], a quirky piece of TV ephemera from the late 1980s and early 1990s. [Max] was a supposedly computer generated TV show host and VJ with a pseudomechanical stutter, a slightly blocky rendered head, and a moving background of rendered lines. He looks a little quaint for viewers with a few decades viewing experience of CGI, but in his day he was cutting-edge cypberpunk TV.
He also made unscheduled showings on two Chicago TV stations in an audacious hack that has never been …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Max Headroom Takes Chicago In Audacious TV Hack