“imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper…”

June 3, 2010

This has been floating around a bit, but it’s worth seeing if you haven’t yet. (thanks for the reminder, Tom)

posted by Andrew Simone in history, news, publishing, technology, television, web sites | * | 1 comment

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Danny on June 3rd, 2010 at 6:06 pm

$0.20 street edition is more competitive than the online version of the newspaper? Oh, this was 1981. That explains so much. In 1981, wine coolers still came in cans and were labeled “wine coolers” – and “malt duck” was the malt beverage of choice – and my Buick Apollo hatchback was the hottest things on wheels. Damn.

Thanks for the memory )

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