1981 KRON TV Report on The Future of Online News

by Scott Beale on January 29, 2009 · 5 comments

In 1981 the television station KRON in San Francisco aired a report showing the future of internet news and online journalism. In the segment they mention that it takes over two hours to download the full text of a newspaper over the phone using a modem.

via TechCrunch

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1 Eddie Codel January 29, 2009 at 10:05 am

The time when TRS-80s, Apple ][s and C64s ruled the scene. “the 2-3000 home computer owners in the Bay area.” I wonder what that number is now.

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2 Digidave January 29, 2009 at 9:41 pm

This is hilarious!!

First on the scene….. last ones to get it.

I still think journalism has a future – but it will look radically different from what we know now.

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3 Thomas Schewe January 30, 2009 at 1:20 pm

“…connect him to a computer in Columbus, Ohio…” – This sounds like good old CompuServe. *sigh*

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4 Enric January 31, 2009 at 10:22 am

“A few years a head…” and “…not much competition…” changed a few decades later…

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5 puglyfeet February 8, 2009 at 10:36 pm

hilarious

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