What's in a (domain)name?
I have recently discovered that I have lost the domain name 'radioactive.net.au'.
For those of you who don't know, this domain was used as the address and name for my very first large-scale project - an interactive radio show.
I don't know how it happened, I believe the contact email address was old and I never received notice that it was expiring. It got de-registered and someone snapped it up.
There was nothing on the page except a holding page thanking everyone for their involvement, but I am very sad about it. Radioactive, for me, represents a time in my life when everything was new. It was 100% idealism. It felt like the world was listening (even though it was probably just 10 people in little Logan) and that we could achieve anything.
My fondest memories of that project are the people. The friendships I made with people all over the place. The best relationships that came out of it, however, were the ones that proved to me, time and time again, that they would come through for me in the end.
The first and clearest example of that for me was Cass. When Greg left in a petulant rage of stupidity she broke her promise to 'never go on air' and helped make radioactive even better than it was before by coming on as co-host. It was at once my first experience with how small people could be (Greg), and how great.
And unlike what some might think, she didn't just jabber on air... she did a crash course in the hardware and literally ran the whole show with toggles and switches and music.
She was amazing...
Of course there were others, Richard, Keepie, Spyboy, Helen, Liam and everyone else...
Those mad scrambles to get the site on the air, the nervous trip to the station, the late night adrenalin rush, the on-air debates, trying to come down after the show, the scary nights at an unsavory train station and the star trek at 1am... I will never watch star trek like that again.
I miss it all so much.
It's a sad day. Bye, bye to the radioactive.net.au domain name.
For those of you who don't know, this domain was used as the address and name for my very first large-scale project - an interactive radio show.
I don't know how it happened, I believe the contact email address was old and I never received notice that it was expiring. It got de-registered and someone snapped it up.
There was nothing on the page except a holding page thanking everyone for their involvement, but I am very sad about it. Radioactive, for me, represents a time in my life when everything was new. It was 100% idealism. It felt like the world was listening (even though it was probably just 10 people in little Logan) and that we could achieve anything.
My fondest memories of that project are the people. The friendships I made with people all over the place. The best relationships that came out of it, however, were the ones that proved to me, time and time again, that they would come through for me in the end.
The first and clearest example of that for me was Cass. When Greg left in a petulant rage of stupidity she broke her promise to 'never go on air' and helped make radioactive even better than it was before by coming on as co-host. It was at once my first experience with how small people could be (Greg), and how great.
And unlike what some might think, she didn't just jabber on air... she did a crash course in the hardware and literally ran the whole show with toggles and switches and music.
She was amazing...
Of course there were others, Richard, Keepie, Spyboy, Helen, Liam and everyone else...
Those mad scrambles to get the site on the air, the nervous trip to the station, the late night adrenalin rush, the on-air debates, trying to come down after the show, the scary nights at an unsavory train station and the star trek at 1am... I will never watch star trek like that again.
I miss it all so much.
It's a sad day. Bye, bye to the radioactive.net.au domain name.
posted by Chris at 3:51 PM
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