Bit, byte, gebissen

Bit, byte, bit - the computer magazine in Zündfunk was a long series on computer technology and culture in Zündfunk the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR ). She went on 7 October 1985, the start and was the first computer program on German radio, even before Chippie, the hr2 computer magazine. 1994 was bit, byte, bitten renamed Fatal Digital. End of December 1999, the BR one the series.

History

Bit, byte, bit comes up with an idea of the journalist Maximilian Schönherr and the then head of the editorial " youth radio " in BR Christoph Lindenmeyer back. The title invented in 1984 the feature director Nicholas of Koslowski. On September 8, 1984, the two-hour prototype for the later series ran; it was the first ARD radio broadcast of this kind was triggered by the boom of games and later home computers in adolescents beginning of the 1980s. The series started in 1985 as a weekly short article corner and grew due to great response after a few weeks to the half-hour format. Schoenherr was an editor and presenter until September 1993. Buschek Then Oliver took over the series.

In 1994, the editors changed the name: From the reminiscent of the home computer time bit, byte, bit - the computer magazine in Zündfunk was initially Fatal digital - the computer magazine, in January 1998, then Fatal Digital - Computers, communication, commerce. End of December 1999, the Zündfunk a row. Maximilian Schönherr was now encountered in Cologne to the team, operating under the auspices of the editorial director Edgar science Forschbach and the journalist Manfred Kloiber weekly series Research News - called Computer and Communication in Germany spark into life.

Bit, byte, bit did not see himself as " explanatory Magazine " for computer ignorant and not as a craft room for friends of the soldering iron, but rather as a pilot by a newly formed subculture. The series filled a kind of chronicler duty in some subjects over the years crystallized as leitmotifs: Hacking and Black Copy, privacy, games, and networking through e-mail and chat.

Regular guests were members of the Chaos Computer Club and its south German counterparts, the group around the Bavarian Hacker Post, the FIfF, data protection officers, programmers and young people who live in the studio via modem overshadowed with the then only a few "networked ". As irregular element, the short story series " Jefferson computer Nights " was, in a bleary-eyed programmers always about living with a woman who also watches during their sleep via the digital escapades her lover.