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Computers Destroying the Print Media: A History

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freedc
01/29/09

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We had a Dow Jones service when I was in school in the 80s and early 90s. I forget what it was called. But you were able to pull up encyclopedia type stuff as well as news.
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Aaron Altman
01/29/09

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Awesome stuff, Owen.
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Tremonius
01/29/09

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I remember in the late 80s you could join something called The Source, which offered great western educational libraries and such. It was very expensive. You sent a blank check. If you had to ask, you couldn't afford it. Also Compuserve was there then. There were screens and screens of instructions and rules, and I never figured out what the end result was, except it was good for you and you could meet lots of folks and be modern and all. All of this was text only. And snail mail first class stamps were four cents. That's why newspaper editors went to sleep and missed the online train pulling away from their station.
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Dickdogfood
01/29/09

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Oh WOW. Our family stayed at a Florida hotel with Viewtron in the lobby back in February '84, and I was all over shit. "With this computer encyclopedia, I am SMART."
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Cheap Shot
01/29/09

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This is brilliant but can we rephrase it to be a little less violent like "the computers are killing the shit out of dying print models"?

How about we look at it positively and simply state how print is 'transitioning' to the web.

The web as you know it will get replaced by something new in the future as well as everything else does.

'nuff said.
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Takes One to Know One
01/29/09

@Cheap Shot: Or maybe the web will endure and humans will be replaced. Think about it.
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Cheap Shot
01/30/09

@frobisher: You've been reading Raymond Kurtzweil huh?

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