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Newspapers on the Internet?!

2009 January 30

Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee [and] turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper.

Here’s a 1981 report from Bay Area TV station KRON on the San Francisco Examiner’s first attempt at an online presence.

Key quote: “…we’re not in it to make money.” How true.

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  1. donkey boy permalink
    January 30, 2009

    dude, this is going to be big. you should get in at the ground level while you still can!

  2. Joanne permalink
    January 31, 2009

    Amazing what 28 years can bring…actually it seems like a long time!

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