"This is an experiment.... We're not in it to make money."
Way back in 1981, a group of newspapers started fooling around with making their content available to home computer users. Those intertubes might as well have been a trojan horse.
Where does one begin ? Rotary phones ? Twenty cent newspapers ? An article about Dems spending money on arms ? Even I don't recognize that distant and scary era, and I was already out of college. It is a blessing, I tell you.
Dan Kennedy also blogged about this video / story. Note his comments about download times and internet access fees circa 1981.
ReplyDeleteAnd they still don't look as spiffy online as that ad implied...
ReplyDeleteWhere does one begin ? Rotary phones ? Twenty cent newspapers ? An article about Dems spending money on arms ? Even I don't recognize that distant and scary era, and I was already out of college. It is a blessing, I tell you.
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