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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The number is called tonight 503-225-0860.

That's 503-2-2-25-0860.

Had a conversation over the weekend with someone who remembers Ground Zero from the old days.

I mean, Rich Rounds, one of our producers, he's one of the, I guess you can say, one of the senior people who remember Ground Zero back in the old days, back in the golden years, I guess.

You know, the things just began.

And, of course, we, we start off local, first local in Salt Lake City, Utah.

And we were fortunate enough to have a guy that worked with us.

It was into multimedia.

And this was his internet was new.

I mean, we're talking 1995.

You know, we were pre-bullet and board.

And then we went from bulletin board to having just a simple website to having, you know, simple things.

And then we wanted so badly to jump onto the market

of the internet because we, we saw, you know, we saw, uh, some future ideas we wanted to play

with. And some of the things we played with, you know, we played with like, uh, emails that would

play for you. That we'd get an email that would play, uh, the morning news, like, emails that would play for you. We'd get an email that would play the morning news.

And some of that morning news was giving you directions on where to go on the internet and how to have fun on the internet.

Others were broadcasting live shows on the internet using real audio.

And, in fact, it was coast-to-coast a.m. Art Bell that we first put out on the internet using real audio. And in fact, it was coast-to-coast AM Art Bell that we first put out on the internet

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