Guinness World Records Submission #5
First Bar Webcast Series
Evidence Overview
Several months after launching You-On-Tv.com, Michael Lee Goetz, Sr. began producing an ongoing bar webcast series from The Harder Bar in Dallas, Texas. The series was called THE HOMETOWN Global Open Mic and ran across multiple shows in 1997–98.
Each unscripted Wednesday-night event included several short webcasts from a makeshift stage area. When one segment finished, the bar returned to normal activity; when a guest wanted to speak or perform, a new webcast was started. Archived files for each night were grouped under a single show number, with multiple clips inside that show.
The materials below document the webcast series and the supporting records that show it operated as an ongoing series (41 shows), produced independently by Mr. Goetz.
Evidence Items
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Still frame from a webcast introduction.
Used here as the primary reference image for the bar webcast series. (Shown above) -
Webcast clip: introduction and explanation of the internet webcast concept.
Goetz introduces THE HOMETOWN “LIVE” Global Open Mic and explains the webcast concept — View Evidence. -
Point-of-view playback of the encoded webcast on a desktop computer.
Camera recording of a computer screen while one of the Harder Bar webcast clips is played back from the encoded file — View Evidence. -
Interview segment.
Goetz discusses the bar webcast series and the idea of using the internet to give people a global “open mic” — View Evidence. -
Screenshot of an original Harder Bar show-list web page.
Partial list of shows with dates and short descriptions, demonstrating the project ran as an ongoing series — View Evidence.
