Jan 30 2009
Random Friday Video: The Birth of Electronic News
Think back to what you were doing in 1981, then imagine getting news via your home computer—if you had one.
This video of a 1981 KRON report predicts the future of news reporting on the future of the Internet.
And the best part? An S.F. Examiner editor mentions how they’re not in it to make money, when referring to his newspaper’s experimentation of an electronic version of the news. “…we’re probably not going to lose a lot but we aren’t going to make much either.”
Oh, if they only knew…
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