A prescient 1981 news report predicting a new-fangled trend: reading a newspaper online. Choice excerpts:
“Imagine if you will sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.”
“This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to mean to us, as editors and reporters and what it means to the home user. And we’re not in it to make money, we’re probably not going to lose a lot but we aren’t going to make much either.”
“It takes over 2 hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper…and with an hourly use charge of $5 the new telepaper won’t be much competition for the 20 cent street edition.”
