From 1981 comes this San Francisco TV news report about amazing online newspapers...
Highlights...
:38...phone modem to connect.
1:05..."We're not in it to make money, we're probably not going to lose a lot..."
1:34..."Owns home computer."
1:59..."Engineers predict that the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by computer, but that's a few years off."
2:04..."So for the moment at least, this fellow [pictured newspaper vendor] isn't worried about being out of a job."
If only they knew...
-via 10,000 Words
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3 comments:
2:04 For the moment this fellow...
This was 30 years ago. I'm sure he's been out of the job long before now. He wsa no spring chicken.
That was fun. Thanks for posting it!
Cool video. Back in about 84, 85 a few high schools in Miami, including mine, got to try out a system created by Knight-Ridder that was very similar to this. It was prior to Compuserve and we didn't get it at home. But we could go to the school library where it seemed like it was a permanent connection, and we could read the daily Herald and search older articles. Forgot about that til I watched this video.
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