Musings on online newspapers from 1978. Yes, 1978. Kenneth Edwards got it amazingly right. It's held up better with time than, say, disco music.
If we think of a newspaper as being a printed object delivered to our homes, we may be talking about replacing newspaper with an electronic signal. But if we think (as I do) of newspapers as organizations which disseminate news and information by the most efficient methods available - then we are thinking in terms of applying a new technology to an existing institution.
Even more amazing is nearly 30 years later, a lot of people who get paychecks from newspapers haven't gotten this one. Maybe, they're still listening to the Bee Gees?
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waiting on my book.
Will it be ready by next Wednesday?
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I'll get on it right after this KC and the Sunshine Band album finishes!
Album? What's an album?
Heck, I'm such a geezer I own vinyl from that period.
What's an album?
That's this scam whereby in order to get the one good song you want, you have to spend $16 on 10 other crap songs that you'll never listen to.
Hmmm, someone should make a vinyl format that would be cheaper and have just one or two songs on it. It could be smaller, and they could call it, well, a single.
Nah. Not gonna happen.
Trey
When *I* was your age, I used to browse the internet with a *text-based* browser!
I can remember PINE for email and WAIS for searches. I was happy to get a Windows-based version of gopher. Ah, days are better now.
It could be smaller, and they could call it, well, a single.
Yeah, but I never could cram those little saucer-sized records into my cassette player!
What is this "windows" you speak of? My highschool computer lab used punchcard machines, and the IBM PC didn't come out until I was a Junior in highschool.
I was talking about later and Windows 3.1 (yuck1)