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Burning Man 1994
Just about an hour ago, 2100 Pacific Time on Labor Day, Monday 5 September 1994, videographers with MONK magazine sent footage from the Burning Man festival in the desert near Reno, Nevada to a satellite (at $10 per minute) and onto the Internet, where I was watching at home via a 14,400 kbps SLIP connection via CU-SeeMe. In the photo gallery you'll see that MONK's headquarters, the bus, is caught in the glare of the bonfire. Can you see the toll-free phone number for MONK magazine painted on the side of the bus?
Alfredo Lusa sent out a press release that day:
Not content with our first huge success, we will now attempt a more daring
enterprise: we will broadcast live to the internet the Burning
Man!
The event will take place on the remote, vision-inducing playa of the Nevada
desert (about 100 miles north of Reno - 7 hours drive from San Francisco)
throughout Labor Day Weekend (September 2-5). Burning Man is a ragtag assemblage
of neo-pagans, ravers, hippies and lawyers that culminates in the ritual torching
of a four-story-high figure made of wood and glass! (expected attendance 2500
people)
PS: If you have a CU-SeeMe reflector server and would like to tie your reflector
to ours, please contact us.
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