Serious 1981 News Report About the Internet Is High Comedy 33 Years Later

Ahhh, the ’80s. Neon, power ballads, and the Internet. Oh, you don’t remember the Internet from the ’80s? Get learnt about this here newfangled contraption by taking a trip through time with a vintage tech news segment. Look at those two guys manually typing printed news stories into computers. One day, someone just like them will type the words “you won’t believe” in a headline, and their whole industry will be revolutionized.

(via Neatorama)

Previously in the Internet

• Sites are still trying to stop the FCC from making today’s Internet into a joke
• The Internet is getting a women-only social networking site
• A university is devoting $1 million to the study of Internet memes

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