Dreams from 1981: imagine a future with newspapers online
The Earl Blog | 01 February 2009
This TV broadcast from 1981 is making the rounds in the blogosphere. It's a Steve Newman broadcast on KRON San Francisco about this crazy idea of early home computers being able to process the morning newspaper online. Well, as we all know, that will never happen.
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