1981 primitive Internet report on KRON
Posted by adminSep 3
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.
@noisepuppet Man thats crazy. Your right, everyone in the video is long dead.
Hahahaha. It killed the newspapers. =)
@earthweek No way, what are you, like 112 years old????!?!?!?!?!
@noisepuppet I’m not dead dude. I’m the reporter and am still going strong.
All those people are DEAD NOW
solid gold! I was in first grade at the time of this report!
Wow those computers were ancient. She was right there wasn’t going to be much competition against real newspapers, but wrong in that its the internet that would put newspapers out of buisness.
@zonemad96 , hahahahahaha, ya ya ya ya, i get it , it would only take 1/2 a second now, computers are so fast now, ya yaya, heh eh heh he, old computers were slow, yay ya ya ya, tell me more, yeah yeah yeah
Richard Halloran has a computer IN HIS HOUSE? Is he a billionaire?
a few years my ass!
so this is what killed the newspapers
bwa haha lmao it takes over two hours to recive the whole entire newspaper now it would take us less than a half second to load the newpaper in all text … and pictures and all would only take around 2 … and thats without any wires lol
at 1:58 snap that old monitor!
@danrichards23 Sure, I had some today. I think they were from Frito-Lay.
The internet is the future.
jeez that internet looks old.
guess old buddy is out of a job now! Lol! 2 hours to download TEXT. Good thing i didnt know about the net until it was usable!
@danrichards23 STOP TALKING CRAZY MAN
@taylorw
With all due respect. Thats wrong. The early internet already existed in 1969. But it was a military project. A few universities had it as well.
The internet existed already as early as 1969. Not very many people knew about it though.
Internet? Is that thing still around?
@danrichards23 agreed! I was boen in 76 so five years older but used to play around on the Commodore 64 and write goofy programs just for the heck of it.
whats next? putting computer chips in people? :/
@mryuck206
@kranktank 1.21 GIGABYTES!!!!! THATS IMPOSSIBLE! sure in 2010 you can find it at every corner drug store, but this is 1981.