In 1981, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner tried an experiment – they put their newspapers online. This peak at a year where Reagan had just started his first term as President and AIDs was just on the horizon is definitely worth a look. I particularly enjoyed the KRON-4 anchor’s dismissal of online news at the end of the segment. My high school (I was a freshman at the time) had one of the dial-up modems shown in the piece – where you actually put your handset into a piece of equipment that read the electronic beeps coming out of the earpiece.
Enjoy…and Happy Friday!
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