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1981 News report on the future of the internet
- lolwutf 13y agoAny idea why this was shot in San Francisco? Why was technology so popular there, even back then?
- iamwithnail 13y agoI suspect it's because WELL and other early systems were there. France actually had a precursor system a couple of years earlier, which was only finally turned off a couple of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
- vampirechicken 13y agoNotice that Compuserve was in Columbus, not in SanFran. We ruled the internet even when it was dial-up via rotary phones.