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This 1981 local news report about “electronic newspapers” is going around today. They treat the idea that’s basically the internet like crazy woo-woo science fiction. Electronic newspapers are to the internet what horseless carriages were to the car:
Old news reports about the internet are always funny, but in a comforting way: no matter what happens in life, news reports about technology from five years ago or longer will always be a source of amusement. Though I was under the impression that “spiffy” has ALWAYS been an uncool word. (Via Waxy.)
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it’ll take a FEW years? oh, understated 1981 guy.
I don’t think this will catch on. It’s not spiffy enough.
I love that guy who’s just on there b/c he owns a home computer. Always gotta have an interview with an expert! Journalism!
I like how the anchor is using the sawed-off end of a shotgun as a microphone. Also, the fellow not worried about being out of a job is now dead.
Nikola Tesla had that shit figured out well before 1981. Nikola Tesla had all his shit figured out well before anyone else.
Thomas Edison is a fucking douche.
amen!
I know, David Bowie is awesome.
“We’re not in this for the money. We probably aren’t going lose a lot but we won’t make much either.”
Oops.
Ha. I love how complicit they are in their own downfall!
If it weren’t for Edison’s patent-thieving shenanigans, Tesla would have destroyed the entire planet with the power of his mad genius.
big thumbs up to this news report being on the internet.