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Daily Archives: February 21, 2009

Primitive Internet News from 1981

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Andrew Spittle
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Boing Boing posted this earlier today. It’s a TV news report from 1981 about how some newspapers are moving toward electronic delivery systems. At this time it apparently took 2 hours for the newspaper to download (text only of course) and cost $10 to do so; oh how times have changed. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/v/5WCTn4FljUQ&hl=en&fs=1

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