About Philly Talk
Striving to always be ... one step behind ... a day late and a dollar short and always ... behind the curve ... we are ...
PhillyTalk.com ... and damn proud of it.
About "PT" ~ About PhillyTalk.com ~ Site History & Contributors ~ Technical
©1994 to present day - All Rights Reserved
Here's some lame 1990s midi file mood music while reading
On this site, you'll find all sorts of useful and interesting information and links relevant to the area.
Webmaster, Editor... Married, Family, First generation child of immigrants from post-WW2 Europe. You can get a feel for what sort of person I am and what I believe by reading What I Learned Listening To Talk Radio. Why I started this site is below and why I continued it is in the new Health Section.
Life is short, have fun, and ...
Enjoy the site.
The concept for PhillyTalk came about in 1994 as an online meeting place among a small circle of friends. As years went by some of the original members moved or passed away. New people joined and the community grew. We've made friends from all over the country and in many other parts of the world. Some are former Philadelphians, some attended college here or worked in the area for a period of time. We all share a bond of respect and common interests. This new site is a continuation of that original idea and promise.
The first website was created on AOL in their software called AOLpress then Front Page. The old site still has content with those.
In 1997 those of us that liked talk radio started exchanging emails, jokes, and topical information. This grew into an original and novel website called "The Philadelphia / Delaware Valley Talk Radio Website" ... a real mouthful. It was the first and only website dedicated to covering talk radio in the Philly area. Portions of the site went public in January 1998 and it quickly grew to be the most read website on local talk radio. It became so big that we merged several smaller sites into PhillyTalkRadioOnline.
Again the site grew quickly. We outgrew a few message boards along the way resulting in several expansions and server moves.
Finally, after developing a number of highly successful websites that in one way or another dealt with Philadelphia or talk radio I got around to combining several concepts into this site. At its heart, it remains a gathering place for friends.
2015 - PhillyTalk goes on a hiatus so I can work on some other projects.
Post-Covid 2022/23 - PhillyTalk will merge some old archived content from PTRO and develop some new concepts.
Original site contributors (PhillyTalk, PhillyTalkRadioOnline, and the Forums)
"PT" - Webmaster / Editor in Chief
Mark - "Resident HTML & technical guru", Politics and Opinion forum moderator, original member
Anna - Original member, graphics
Dr. Dan - "The advertiser's friend", information
Alex - Technical help. His motto, "Content not Candy"
Sandie - Design consultant 1999
Sylvia - Forum moderator and consultant
Rich (Mandalore Warrior) - "South Jersey correspondent"
Amanda - Chief Liberal Babe
"USA GI JOE" - Research expert, an original regular contributor
Various Anonymous by request - info, humor, etc
Deep Mic - Network mole, inside perspective
Spoofer Nick - helped with parody humor in 1998, content contributor
Dee - (RIP) Slang Page
Jim - relevant updates, humor, inside perspective
Sam - topical news contributor, original member
Tammy - Technical
Scott "~" - Content
Steve - Content, Parody, Commentary
I also need to thank all those that work(ed) in radio that helped me out. The off-air relationships over the years are something I'll treasure.
CMS - This site is run off of Content Management System, Joomla. (Think Wordpress but different) In the Web & Tech section, you'll find various reference info and tips on how the site is run.
Font - I originally chose Tahoma for the content font. Moving content over the years has resulted in a bit of a mess so you'll find mixed fonts. For the graphics, I brought back some of the 1990s fonts. The main one is called Magneto. Here are the details on that one...
Leslie Cabarga turned to the geometric, streamlined scripts prepared by American industrial designers for the inspiration of this series. In its three variations of letter spacing, Magneto recalls the chrome-strip lettering laid along the rounded shapes of refrigerator doors and automobile trunks in the forties and fifties; FB 1995.
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