Indescribably Awesome
Imagine being able to use your rotary dial phone to download a text-only edition of the daily local newspaper right to your home computer in a mere two hours! Sounds impossibly futuristic, right? Well, journey with me back to 1981 and watch this crazy vision become a reality:
All sarcasm aside, it really is amazing to watch this and think about all that’s happened since then. And, of course, to imagine how people 30 years from now will be mocking us for our reliance on primitive technology like “blogs” and “browsers”.
(hat tip to the Daily Kos for the link)
January 28th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
“That is, with the exception of pictures, ads, and comics.”
How things have changed.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
“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.”
Wow.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing it!
January 28th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
“A Mo-Jo, it’s a very high-tech machine that transmits pages over the telephone! It only takes eighteen minutes a page!” –Ben Fong-Torres, Almost Famous
January 29th, 2009 at 2:25 am
I was sitting down with my morning coffee (and juice and tea, I’m not sure why I drink so many fluids in the morning) watching a video (on my home computer) from 1981 (that’s before I was born) about reading the papers on my home computer…
There must be people online right now that have watched this news segment when it originally aired, I wonder what they where thinking then…
January 29th, 2009 at 2:44 am
“Richard Halloran – Owns Home Computer”
That one cracked me up.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:45 am
1:59 in is also hilarious! Something really exciting must be going on inside his brand new office computer.