Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online … sort of.
Watch this documentary from 1981 when ‘owning a home computer’ was enough to get you on local television.
Those days ‘free online newspapers’ did take over 2 hours to download over the phone, and with an hourly use charge of $5:
‘the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20c street edition’.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ]
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Ah, it is Techcrunch too: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/29/you-need-to-see-this-video/
In de advertentie zie je dat de dienst wordt aangeboden aan Compuserve leden. Compuservere, The Source and AOL waren allemaal eigen netwerken die pas later op Internet zijn aangesloten.
aj…@cs.com (compuserve)
Not that I’m totally impressed, but this is more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on Furl telling that the info here is quite decent. Thanks.
Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.
Let me ask this. Who is/was Mr. Halloran? Based on his comments he saw the future… Who was he? How did he know?