Mark & Wes, in Emeryville, CA at the Asqew Grill

This episode is dedicated to Al Bernay, who passed away on July 10th. Mark talks about the history of the Mark Bernay Society, the fact that Al was truly the original PodCaster, and his involvement in the beginning of something that affected the future of technology and the generation of kids who took pleasure in experimenting with phones and equipment. This is the first of two shows where we will talk about Al and how important he was to young people, as well as us older ones.

Sites of Interest:

The following websites used to have a lot of tape recordings that the webmaster and other people made back then by dialing Al's and other lines and recording the calls. All these sites are off the air at the time this was posted, and we don't know why. We are including these links in case the sites come back.

http://www.mapstostarshomes.com/

http://www.dialajoke.us/

http://www.funfone.org/

http://www.telephone-entertainment.com/

http://www.paulmackpresents.com/

These should be working:

http://www.phonetrips.com - search for recordings that say "Al Bernay".

http://www.milesofmemory.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=8&Itemid=11 - Play the video "Maps 06" and the chapters of "Maps 07".

Al's web pages. These work best in Firefox with pop-up blockers turned off, and the first one especially may not work in Internet Explorer.

http://www.touristguider.com

http://www.your-teacher.net

http://home.earthlink.net/~aldiamond/jbrtc-ns.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~aldiamond/job4kids.htm