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The Internet of 1980 and OTE

"Imagine, if you want, that you are sitting for your breakfast , you turn on your computer to read the day's paper.”

This is how the newscast begins in 1981 in San Francisco, and describes how newspapers will begin to be distributed over the Internet. It is striking that it mentions the existence of “computer owners in . "

"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 hours to download the entire newspaper to the computer from the modem of the time. If we think about her of the time 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.

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Written by giorgos

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