There’s a lot to love in this news report about online newspapers from 28 years ago. Dialing the rotary phone to connect to the modem, citing a whopping 2,000 – 3,000 computer owners in the Bay Area, waiting two hours to download the content of a newspaper (and paying $5 an hour for the privilege)… [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Blast from the past: Online newspapers in 1981
Published by January 29th, 2009 in Journalism, Television and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsThe sad, slow death of Detroit
Published by January 1st, 2009 in General, Government and Writing. 0 CommentsWith the recent auto bailout, we were treated to quite a few stories about the “future of Detroit.” In a sad story from The Weekly Standard, writer Matt Labash visits the city that was once a thriving metropolis but is now dying with no salvation in sight:
Over the last several years, it has ranked as [...]
