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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

1981 report on online newspapers

This is an awesome 1981 report from San Francisco about how newspapers were putting articles 'online' over the phone. It only took a couple of hours to download it each day!!!!


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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There were no Texas papers online at the time of this report. This goes along with this article I recently posted on my Twitter stream. Can't fault them for being innovative though.

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