1995-08-17 Michael Jackson chats online with fans (Simulchat)

On the evening of August 17th 1995, Michael Jackson gave his first cyberchat to fans. The so-called "Simulchat" brought together users of American internet providers Compuserve, America Online, Prodigy and the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to simultaniously submit questions. MTV (USA) also televised a live transcript of the chat. Over 16,000 people attended the chat on America Online alone. The event took place in the boardroom of The Museum Of Television & Radio in midtown Manhattan. Michael was seated at the long boardroom table surrounded by representatives from all of the online services - who were seated in front of their laptops dialed-in to their respective services. Questions were selected on a 'round-robin' basis from each of the services, Michael would answer the questions, and the representatives would type his answers back to their service.

Read the full transcript of all questions and answers here:
https://jacksonvillage.org/forum/inde...

This video is compiled of...
0:00:00 CNN Showbiz Today (16th August 1995)
0:00:26 MTV (Europe) News (17th August 1995)
0:00:50 AP (17th August 1995)
0:01:52 Sony released Simulchat promo video (solo here:    • Michael Jackson Simulchat Interview 1995 (...   )
0:05:22 MTV (Europe) News (18th August 1995)
0:05:53 report bits of Hard Copy / Headline News / ET (thanks to 'MJMedia09 Returns')

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