Reading the newspaper on your computer?

[Valmy]

http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/

Not as farfetched as it may seem.

[garbon]

Feel kinda bad for those old guys. Probably(?), didn't see where computing would go.

Also, I like the descriptor of "Owns Home Computer."

[OttoVonBismarck]

I liked that, it was like he was basically someone newsworthy because he owned a computer. 

[CountDeMoney]

lol, that old guy reminds me of my grandfather, he was so into computers before he died in 1984.  Would've loved seeing how things turned out.

[The Brain]

Nice. 

I wonder if the old dude's headstone reads Owned Home Computer.

[Josephus]

Little did these newspapers know, that what they were doing would cause the end of them.

[fhdz]

I liked the one dude working at the newspaper who is hunched and squinting at his shitty monochrome monitor

[Josquius]

Interesting, such reports usually speak of printing out the paper.

I often think its sad in a way that technology has advanced so fast. It would have been interesting to see how the text based internet on 80s computers could have developed had the computer technology remained on a similar level.

[Josephus]

Interesting, such reports usually speak of printing out the paper.

I often think its sad in a way that technology has advanced so fast. It would have been interesting to see how the text based internet on 80s computers could have developed had the computer technology remained on a similar level.

We'd all be playing Zork.

[garbon]

I often think its sad in a way that technology has advanced so fast. It would have been interesting to see how the text based internet on 80s computers could have developed had the computer technology remained on a similar level.

Why?

[fhdz]

Interesting, such reports usually speak of printing out the paper.

I often think its sad in a way that technology has advanced so fast. It would have been interesting to see how the text based internet on 80s computers could have developed had the computer technology remained on a similar level.

We'd all be playing Zork.

Or Nethack, or Dwarf Fortress.

Come to think of it I'd be okay with that.

[Maximus]

Dwarf Fortress wouldn't run on an 80s computer.

[Brazen]

My office hasn't evolved much past this.

[Ed Anger]

I miss CompuServe.

[Josephus]

I miss CompuServe.

My first email address...actually it was a work address. Why they thought anyone would remember addresses that went something like: [email protected] is beyond me.