"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the days newspaper. Well, its not as far-fetched as it may seem.
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.
(via http://www.youtube.com/user/earthweek)
lol. it'll be interesting to see what people 30 years from now say about our caveman-ish technology.
morestrangethan1 6 months ago
Newspapers...
What are newspapers? Are they something like buggy whips?
electronfun 1 year ago
Oh dear god..........
VloggerGal90 2 years ago
Well it may look quaint now, but it was a miracle back then.
leppy111 2 years ago
Do that math, 10bucks online for 2hours download to get just the articles at 300baud, I sent my first batch file over a educational net connection to be processed 70miles away in 1983, Al Gore has been trying to get this off the ground a looong time.
tv10morehead 2 years ago
"...It's not going to be very much competition for the street addition."
Eeehhhhh... yeah. Well, it only took 28 years to prove that wrong, so... not too bad of a prediction.
Boonehams 2 years ago
Thats more of a basic bulletin board service, not the internet. People and the newspapers are calling and uploading and downloading to a central server. There is no network. I have a friend who used to run a BBS from his bedroom,
abergethirty 2 years ago
While reading the PAPER paper, the comic strip "Zits" had the father character sitting at a computer with all of these sound effects popping off around he screen ("pop" "zing" sorts of things) In the last panel he said, "Reading the paper online is like trying to meditate in a casino." EXACTLY. I'd rather be in a comfortable chair with a cup of coffee and a purring cat than sit at this screen for EVERYTHING.
maxglitz 3 years ago
This is madness? They can do that? Is this even possible? Crazy future people.
Dogstolmychi 3 years ago
Oh my God. That is almost like fiction, isn't it?
26095 3 years ago