Where Are They Now? Part 4

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 2:22 p.m.

b'At some point, you may end up being invited to your high school reunion\\u2014and you\\u2019re probably going to go because you wanna see what happened to all those people\\u2026\\n\\nWhere\\u2019s the jock that made your life miserable?...the girl or the guy who snubbed you for that date and broke your heart\\u2026the shy, nerdy guy who was really smart\\u2026who did well?...who got what was coming to them\\u2026\\n\\nBut\\u2014oh, wait: people at the reunion are going to be thinking the same about you\\u2026how\\u2019s your hair and your waistline and your complexion?...dammit!...what am I gonna wear?...what am I gonna say to these people?...and so the anxiety sets in\\u2026\\n\\nBut you\\u2019ll still end up going\\u2026why?...because we\\u2019ve all got the \\u201cwhere-are-they-now\\u201d gene\\u2026it\\u2019s only natural to be curious about the whereabouts of people we were close to (or at least in close proximity to) during an important time in our lives\\u2026\\n\\nConnecting people this way was one of the first projects for the internet\\u2026classmates.com went online way back in 1995\\u2026its sole purpose was the find anyone you might have gone to school with from kindergarten to university\\u2026\\n\\nThis was also the purpose of a site called \\u201cFriendster\\u201d back in 2002\\u2026then came MySpace in 2003\\u2026anyone remember \\u201chi 5?\\u201d...it showed up in 2004\\u2026then finally, Facebook in 2005\\u2026\\n\\nYou know what we need?...a site that links together all the artists and musicians we once knew\\u2014a proper one-stop-shop where-are-they-now resource for music\\u2026\\n\\nAs far as I can tell, such a site doesn\\u2019t exist so we have to piece together things ourselves\\u2026.so let\\u2019s try to do that again\\u2026this is another look at lost Canadian alt-rock bands of the 90s and beyond\\u2026\\n\\nDamn\\u2026would someone get on that idea?...it would make doing a show like this a lot easier\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'