1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at
8:24 am
Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.
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@SystemEquation lol?
This Internet thing is just a? fad. You'll all see.
Only several thousand? Nah. Can't be. Maybe that many TRS-80's. Might believe that, and it looks like it's for TRS-80 distribution. Between CPM boxen on the high-end, Apple IIs and Commodore outings, TI 99/4As and Atari 400s for the casual, there had to be far, far more computers around in homes! 'Course, most had no? modems, and many had no disk drive with which to store the paper; yet, computers, all the same!
Look now.?
It crazy how fast? technology is improving.
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"With the exception of ads"
Yeah,? didn't take them long to get around that.
"Copy it? to paper and save it!" Priceless...
2 hours to send it? by phone? I could read you the newspaper in that amount of time with my mouth!
My parents? paid $5,000 for our first computer, a 286. Most people won't even pick one up to recycle the scrap metal in it nowadays!
@taylor189 It could be one of the old ascii characters. If you have a Windows machine, try holding down the alt key and type in 30 or 31 ( I think it is). But don't blame me if it;s not. :¬) I'm using the Linux Ubuntu OS and it doesn't work for? me.
On the old NCP protocol,it switched in? '84,while I was in college,for A.S. degree,it was a HUGE deal that year,AlGoracle was no where to be found.
lol this'll never? catch on
@secretmachine311 - Dick Rowe at? Decca Records
Pause at 1:03 and look at the top right. THEY HAVE TRIANGLES ON THEIR? KEYBOARD! WTF WHY DONT I GET A TRIANGLE.
Darn! I wished? I'd sent in that coupon. Now I've missed that whole new Internet concept.
I had a B+W portable TV and computer setup back in the mid 1980s
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I can't wait to send a fax? from the beach :O
Except the pictures, ads and the comics lol! try? youtube baby!
2 to 3 thousand home computer owners? in the bay area.. wow
that old goon is dead now, never? got to see what the internet turned into. for that fellow selling newspaper, well he lost his job and shot himself lol
Wait. They had newspapers not on the internet? Those primitive men...?
The? internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes.
@DarthAzmul Not dead yet. But ailing, certainly.? Pretty hideous and primitive. Glad we're in 2011!