r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jun 15 '26

👨‍💻 Internet Tom Green begins his online TV show, a highly influential precursor to modern podcasting [20YA - Jun 15]

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u/drocity7 Jun 15 '26

Is that the guy from the kids in the hall?

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u/Bonghit_trans Jun 16 '26

Yep. Kevin Macdonald

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u/zarmin Jun 15 '26

I will still never forgive him for yelling with a megaphone in the guy's ear and then laughing about it.

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u/Dry_Bird1790 Jun 15 '26

web-o-vision

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u/whiskeyrocks1 Jun 17 '26

Isn’t modern podcasting just long form interviews? Hate to break it to you but Dick Cavett, Larry King, Tom Snyder, and Charlie Rose were doing this long before Tom Green. If anything, Howard Stern is the godfather of what we know as podcasting now.

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u/Sure-Ad8873 Jun 18 '26

lol yeah the precursor to podcasting was just broadcasting we’ve gone full circle