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“That’s the trend in the Web right now.It’s a constantly evolving medium,” said Brian Wheeler, Web content coordinator for the Sabres.
As fans post homemade highlight videos on YouTube or create MySpace pages dedicated to the team, they build a sense of community and help former Buffalonians follow the team.
“You like finding other people who are that passionate about the Sabres,” said Hosey.
Changing media With cell phones, e-mail and online video integrated in our daily lives, it’s easy to forget just how far the technology has come in recent years.
In the dark ages before the Internet, fans of the Sabres and other sports teams had to rely on watching the games live, listening on the radio if they were within range or catching the local sports highlights.
Reading about the team meant getting the print version of the local paper or a national publication such as Hockey News.
Rob Aquino remembers when it started to change.
The Amherst native recalled being in a friend’s room at college in 1989 or so when he saw an early online service called Prodigy.
He immediately grasped its potential.
“I said, ‘Wow, you mean you can get hockey scores on this?
’ ” said Aquino, who lives near Boston and writes a hockey blog called Road Apples.
The tech explosion coincides with the current revival in the Sabres’...
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