Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Back To The Future

LM Comment: Common things today seemed like crazy ideas not too long ago. It's always fun to look back to the future. Plus, sometimes there's a lesson too.

A Newspaper? On a PC? That's Crazy Talk
January 31, 2009: from The New York Times -- Here's something just for kicks that's been making the rounds: In 1981, San Francisco TV station KRON aired a news segment about how a select group of computer users were getting their daily copy of the San Francisco Examiner not on paper, but on their home computer (!). The best part comes about one minute into the clip, when one of the Examiner's editors explains that the paper is "not in this to make money."

YouTube video at: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=agiyfxcab.0.0.o7uw4wcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fctt4jr&id=preview

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