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Posted By Mike Orren in Square Pegs on January 27, 2009
This 1981 news report has been making its way around the echo chamber of mediati blogs the past week:
Standouts:
"...of the two-to-three-thousand computer owners in the [San Francisco] Bay area."
And the daily edition (all text) taking two hours to download at a $10 fee, meaning that the guy selling .20 hard copies was still on easy street...
Bonus: The interwebs, circa 1969
Content partner Richardson Echo starting online section to document Richardson history
"I noticed that much of the history of Richardson after World War II was undocumented. I decided to spend some effort collecting items that
City of Sanger gets complaints over bucket brigade with no local ties
"Other complaints concerned one driver who said one of the solicitors put his head all the way inside their car."
That's when you ask them
Collin Gouldin, says:
no pictures? how did they know what's going on?
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Pavel Lishin, says:
The Father Figure looked so exasperated when they were mentioning looking over the household budget, I really thought the was going to roll up that print-out and go smack the wife, as was the style back in the day.
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Matt Anderson, says:
I'll bet there were a lot of locals, like me, that were using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarText">StarText</a> the year after that story.
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