The Screen Savers (February 28, 2002)

[@Dakota_B_]

Would love to see an iptv stream of the old techtv one day. Eventually those shows are gonna get released from whatever vault they're being kept in.

[@deadgale]

The Google toolbar was just Spyware that no one wanted I avoided that toolbar more then I avoide my ex-wife.

[@jd-py5nm]

it was around this time regularly watching this show and hanging out whenever possible in computer lab at school that my folks indeed got me a dell lol

[@akalyx]

i remember leo lapport, wow. thanks for upping all of these! also: don't watch this show while tripping

[@CRASHOVERRIDE420]

I have to ask why

[@sjmatiak]

Love this show 😊

[@thomasandersen2534]

Yeah tell us why bro

[@systematicallyshocked]

19:47 how cool Lane from a producer behind the screens to in front. She actually talked about it very recently on her podcast. Love hearing about them good ol days.

[@ash8019]

8:47 He has 380 megs of ram aww thats cute. wonder what they would think of my 32 gigs back then

[@floydjohnson7888]

56:38 has me doubling down on cursing the then-nascent Comcast DC for not carrying TechTV back then, to wit : "Where was this when I might have found it most useful?"

[@systematicallyshocked]

Comcast screwed everything up. Even since the beginning, according to Leo, someone, I forget the persons name put his own money into tech TV because comcast didnt want to and the people that took it from there through Comcast were apparently big jerks. Hopefully I'm remembering that correctly. It's like they purposely didn't want it to succeed. Such a shame because us as kids and teens took advantage of these shows and knowledge but today it's all swiping through 5 sec shorts. Our minds have genuinely changed.

[@floydjohnson7888]

@@systematicallyshocked I believe it was Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, who initially bankrolled TechTV

[@systematicallyshocked]

@@floydjohnson7888 yes!! You’re right! Could not remember his name. Awesome. I was on Dish Network who had it early on, later Direct who then later took it off. It was a complete mess. The thing is I’m positive there is a room just full of VHS tapes in storage somewhere with every single thing ever shown just waiting for LG Channels/Samung tv and the like to air it 24/7. The one I saw on Tubi only had the newest relaunch I disliked. I’d also go as far and include the mid 2010s The New Screen Savers (to air with the old) who often featured alumni and Leo’s fellow TwiT crew who I thoroughly enjoyed.

[@tomcartwright4375]

Wish they put it back on tv

[@andrewking9340]

Keep these coming!

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

When tech shows were for actual people who wanted to work with computers not just push a mouse. The hosts were no dummies either they had to know their stuff since the callers were not simpletons.

[@starshiptexas]

1:01:20 The password is.... crypto