Happy Birthday MTV...

Note: The following is from the video...

On August 1, 1981 at 12:01 am, MTV aired its first music video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. This debut is still remembered as the breakthrough cultural event of the early 80's, making the beginning of the music video era. Even today, [over twenty-six] years later, this video and related commentaries can be found on numerous sited all over the Web.

Appropriately enough "Video Killed the Radio Star" celebrated the birth of one new medium - the music video - and mourned the waning of another - radio.

On June 6, 2000, eStudio.com helped usher in another paradigm-breaking medium with parody of the original MTV video - "Internet Killed the Video Star." Like the video if parodies, "Internet Killed" chronicles the explosive growth of a whole new medium - the Internet. This animated music parody leaves a lot of roadkill in its wake - MTV, AOL, Bill Gates and others, and is the first in a series of animated music parodies from eStudios that will appear on shockwave.com.




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