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1981 newscast about 'newspapers on the computer' (Original Post) wyldwolf Jan 2014 OP
It all started somewhere. Liberal In Texas Jan 2014 #1
Going to kick...it's quite good. n/t Liberal In Texas Jan 2014 #2
I love quirky stuff like this. JaneyVee Jan 2014 #3
Never gonna happen. K/R nt NYC_SKP Jan 2014 #4
I remember... Liberal In Texas Jan 2014 #5
"Richard Halloran---Owns Home Computer." johnp3907 Jan 2014 #6
Love it! "It takes 2 hours to get the entire newspaper over the phone"! Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #7
Now there's Virtual Paper jmowreader Jan 2014 #8
that is awesome Douglas Carpenter Jan 2014 #9
how far we've come Baclava Jan 2014 #10

Liberal In Texas

(13,453 posts)
5. I remember...
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:43 AM
Jan 2014

sometime in the '70s I visiting some college friends. She was a bank something or another and pulled out a suitcase and put the phone receiver into a rubber connection and after a bunch of dialing got into the the banks computer system. We were watching awed by the TV screen with green or orange characters that meant nothing to us. Things have changed so fast. Now I have more power on my phone than I did in in the late 1990s on my desk top. Probably more than how NASA got the moon on.

Wow, just wow.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
7. Love it! "It takes 2 hours to get the entire newspaper over the phone"!
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 12:51 AM
Jan 2014

Here's a dude in 1967 getting stock prices online, as well as doing banking and accessing his calendar!



jmowreader

(50,451 posts)
8. Now there's Virtual Paper
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 06:40 AM
Jan 2014

It allows a newspaper to put the PDF files the printed newspaper is created from on its website, so the online paper looks exactly like the one you pay a buck a copy for.

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