I like this part: "Once they determined that nobody could make money from videotext and the technology posed no threat to the newsprint model, they were happy

I like this part: "Once they determined that nobody could make money from videotext and the technology posed no threat to the newsprint model, they were happy to shuttered their ventures." This sounds remarkably similar to their current infatuation with Twitter. If Twitter were to suddenly lose cache, they'd be out of there lickety split, confident that it wasn't going to end them.