One Year: The Spot

On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison are excited to share an
episode from One Year: 1995, a Slate podcast focused on telling a
series of stories from 1995, ones which we may have forgotten or
that merit reexamination. In “The Spot,” producer Evan Chung tells
the story of what can be best described as the first internet soap
opera. “The Spot” follows a small group of creators who, through a
series of interconnected blog posts, inspired one of the earliest
instances of online fandom. It’s a story about online creativity,
parasocial relationships, and how not everything on the internet
lasts forever—the exact sort of story that we’d feature on ICYMI if
we’d been making this podcast in 1995. Find One Year: 1995 wherever
you get you podcasts. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and
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