RealAudio

Yeah, so, so one of the very first things that I was asked to do as a, you know, high school student when I was not yet in vocational ministry, was to help the church begin to put their content on the, you know, the newly founded internet, if you will.

So we're talking like 1996, 1997, and I don't know how involved you were with any of the technology back at that point in time, but at that point in time, people were encoding audio in what was called RealAudio.

You might be- remember RealAudio and RealVideo.

[laughs]

And so I was the person in my church who basically brought all that to the church.

And so, you know, we had moved them off of cassette tapes onto recording directly onto CDs, and then we would take those CDs, and we would use Winamp to rip the MP3s off of the CDs, and then we would convert that into RealAudio.

So, I mean-

I remember all that, yeah.

[laughs] J- Jim's pointing out we were the first podcast about guns.

Before there was an iPod, before there were podcasts, we were putting Gun Talk Radio, this show, online in a format that was called RealAudio.

We're talking 30 years ago.

And I didn't know how to do it, didn't even know what it was.

Burn a CD of the show.

Mail it to Dave in California.

He would rip the CD, and then he would upload it in RealAudio, and we would have it online.

So we're, I'm talking a decade before there were any gun podcasts, we were putting a podcast up.

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Netscape 2.0, [laughs] server push animation, and RealAudio.

The designers are already working with HotJava and Virtual RML, and will incorporate them into the site as it become available.

I love this, because all this stuff probably looked terrible.