God dammit I feel old…
You JUST LEARNED about Max Headroom?
(crumbles into bones)
Max Headroom as an idea completely fascinates me. I dream of someday being wealthy enough to engage in a Kaufman esque campaign reviving the spirit of Max Headroom. Like, I live the idea of Max, and especially the potential he has as an idea.
It’s was relatively easy and within reach of many people to do so back then. It took a bit of technical know how, don’t money and you could hijack done TV signals and send out a signal that people could see.
Now it would probably take a good amount of money, lots of skill, lots of knowledge and lots of people in coordination to hack a site or service to try to reach out to a small corner of the internet. Everything is locked down now … sure they can be bypassed and hacked … it just takes far more effort and skill and money than it did 30 years ago.
I think you’re confusing Max Headroom with the “Max Headroom signal hijacking incident”
Max Headroom was a real character who was used in TV shows and commercials, etc.
The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident was where someone hijacked a broadcast in Chicago with a video of someone dressed up as Max Headroom.
I think an identical spirit embodied both the show and the stunt.
It’s the spirit I would want to emulate.
I loved Max Headroom as a kid. It was so ahead of it’s time that maybe now, in the 2020’s, it finally fits in.
Someone is going to make a Max Headroom agent and start 24/7 broadcasts. Ahahahaha.
