Its so interesting to watch this video from just 27 years ago, and see how far we've come since.

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 on the technology was broadcast on KRON San Francisco. It foresaw an era when people could download there news, copy the text and there were even some predictions that Newspapers wouldn't make much money from the service. It's also interesting to hear (and see) these pioneers at work.

....brad....

Lets take a trip in our Multimedia Time Machine. Here’s a video flagged up to us by Techcrunch, showing the birth of internet news. Priceless! Makes you wonder how far news publishing has come, and reinforces how important it is that Publishers react to the everchanging digital world in order to survive.

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.

Got this from Jeff Green’s blog, who in turn got it from the great Shawn Elliot. Good stuff.

Ich bin ja ein Liebhaber von Filmen die in die Zukunft schauen oder die uns aus der Vergangenheit berichten. Also 1981 hat man die ersten Ansätze des “Online-Journalismus” folgendermaßen empfunden:Richard Halloran, geschätzte 70 Jahre alt und einer der wenigen privaten Computer-Besitzer damals, zählt die Vorteile der elektronischen Publikation auf: „Mit diesem System haben wir nicht nur die Möglichkeit, die Nachrichten auf dem Bildschirm zu lesen, sondern wir können sie auch kopieren. Wenn uns etwas interessiert, können wir zurück ins System gehen, die Artikel ausdrucken und sie ablegen. Ich glaube, das ist die Zukunft .“ (via Spreeblick)

2-3000 people in the bay area owned a home computer!

Imagine -- some day you might be able to read the newspaper on your computer!