1981 news report predicts the "Electronic Newspaper"

This San Francisco news report from 1981 predicted that there just might be a future for some crazy thing called the "electronic newspaper." At the time a whopping 3,000 people in the Bay area had home computers. That new-fangled shit will never catch on.
JAPRsays...

SILLY NEWSPAPERS, WHY WOULD ANYONE READ THAT SHIT ON A COMPUTER?


I mean, I can barely read as is, all this clicking shit just makes it more confusing.

dgandhisays...

Too bad they could not see that these silly computers, specifically the ones which run craigslist, would eventually destroy print journalism by making the classified ad revenue disappear by offering a better service for free.

rougysays...

That is a great find.

I think that in 1991 the Rocky Mountain News tried its first stab at publishing an online paper. They quit after a few months because they failed to get the readership they were expecting. I remember hearing a few people say that internet newspapers would never work.

Two, maybe three years later, they were back at it again and so was the Denver Post and Westword, too.

I might not have the whole story straight since the internet was still pretty new to me and most of the people I knew back then, but that's basically what happened.

If we can survive this next economic crisis--which shouldn't be a crisis at all, but an illusion of paper money and phony debt--who knows what we'll see in 2019?

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