The Audiophiles » San Francisco Examiner http://www.theaudiophiles.net Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:17:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Newspapers on the Internet?! http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2009/01/30/newspapers-on-the-internet/ http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2009/01/30/newspapers-on-the-internet/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:32:30 +0000 nick http://www.theaudiophiles.net/?p=183

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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