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Future of the Newspaper? You May Use a ‘Home Computer' To Read It

(Hat tip to Dave Johnson from his blog.)

This classic newscast from 1981 is too good to pass up. Major newspapers putting their stories online -- without the fancy photos "and the comics." But would they every really replace the "20 cent edition" in print?

Previous Comments

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148516
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Oh, but Todd—insert whine here—you can't take the computer to the toilet with you! Except that you can if you want. Look, I like newsprint with the best of 'em. But good reporting and stories are good regardless of the medium. Things change. We just to evolve with them. Not devolve as so many newspaper did in their fat-and-happy years.

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DonnaLadd
Date
2009-06-05T18:03:26-06:00
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148517
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Not even 30 years ago ... Wow. How easy it is to forget the days of hours-long downloads via telephone (hoping the connection wouldn't go down) and DOS-based (i.e., not WYSIWYG) screens. Too funny!

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Ronni_Mott
Date
2009-06-05T18:06:05-06:00
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148520
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Now that's an acid flashback.

Author
Ironghost
Date
2009-06-05T22:23:05-06:00

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