Check out this newscast from 1981 about the future of online news. It starts:
“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on
your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as
far-fetched as it may seem.”
Someone from the San Francisco Examiner is quoted as saying:
“This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to
mean to us, as editors and reporters and what it means to the home
user. And we’re not in it to make money, we’re probably not going to
lose a lot but we aren’t going to make much either.”
28 years later, and people now get more news from the internet than from newspapers.
Honestly, I'm a little surprised it took 28 years.
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