Welcome to DTNS Experiment Week.

All this week, DTNS is on summer vacation,

but in its place is Experiment Week,

where our producers and contributors are trying out

new show ideas and releasing them right here on the DTNS feed.

Enjoy.

Welcome to Tech TV Scrapbook, the podcast that talks to the people and personalities who

made the Tech TV Network such an innovative and forward-thinking channel.

My name is Roger Chang and I'm the host of the show,

and I was also a former producer at Tech TV.

When Tech TV launched back in August of 1998 as ZDTV,

it was positioned as a 24-hour cable network devoted to computers, technology, and the internet.

As part of that mission, two help and how-to shows were created,

the screen savers and call-for-help.

The screen savers focused on a more tech-literate audience that saw technology as both a tool

and a hobby.

Call-for-help focused on users who were either computer neo-fights and needed more

help or they were people who used technology purely for business work.

Eventually, Tech TV became G4 TV and during that transition,

the screen savers was transitioned into the show known as Attack of the Show,

whereas call-for-help went off the air, or so it is commonly thought.

In fact, call-for-help migrated north like Geese to Canada,

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