"Imagine, if you will, that you are sitting down for your morning coffee, you activate it computer to read the newspaper of the day. ”
This is how the bulletin begins news in 1981 in San Francisco, and describes how newspapers will begin distribution via the Internet. The fact that it mentions the existence of "computer owners at home" is striking.
"Technicians now predict that the day will come when we will have all our newspapers and magazines off our computer at home in a few years," said then-reporter Steve Newman.
Obviously he needed more than two hours to download the entire newspaper to the computer from the modem of the time. Considering the speed of the era we should be happy with OTE's speeds. The pessimistic thing is that we are only happy if we compare it with technologies of the 80s.
