1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
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Uploaded by earthweek on Mar 26, 2008
Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.
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NO SHIT?!?! Can you do this today?!
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@jajapani and already he's talking about pirating intellectual property, under what i can only assume to be some sort of 'fair use' cover... just shameful :D
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$5 for 2 hour access? Someone get that guy a AOL trial disk ASAP!
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i wonder if that guy retired before the computer became competition for his job.
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Ah, so this is where internet evolved from.
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1981, the year when I was born... and other great things followed :p
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See how far the innovations on technology have been through :) Whew!
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"...with the exception of pictures, ads, and the comics"
Not just a bad network in retrospect, but also
BAD ADVERTISING
Reminds me of today's Kindle... "No backlight" lol
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Funny how all these 'experiments' turned out to be pointless... the world just adopts to technology automatically. Journalists didn't need to 'figure out' how to do it, it just comes naturally with the new territory.
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"We're not in it to make money" So...is this guy from the S.F. Examiner solely responsible for the death of the newspaper? Because I owe him a fruit basket.
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Funny how the person at 1:33 is described as "owns home computer" ... LOL!!!
jajapani 6 months ago 14
"With the exception of ads"
Yeah, didn't take them long to get around that.
balrogthane 2 months ago 6