The Internet I worked on in 1981

This article made me really smile! I worked at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution in 1981 on the Associated Press project putting this newspaper, and others were too [NYT etc.], onto CompuServe so people could read the newspaper over a computer. All my journalist buddies would walk by my office and say "No one will ever read a newspaper over a TV or computer!" Well, I guess they were wrong in spades.

If you click on the link you can watch a video about it back then:

The Internet In 1981 Was Just So Adorable

The Huffington Post  |  By Alexis Kleinman                            

Posted: 01/17/2014 2:27 pm EST  |  Updated: 01/17/2014 3:25 pm EST

"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee and turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper."

So begins this adorable San Francisco newscast from 1981, chronicling how newspapers are starting to (gasp!) send newspapers over the Internet. Someone is even credited as a "home computer owner."

"Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that's a few years off," newscaster Steve Newman said.

Apparently it took more than two hours to get the whole newspaper to your computer over the phone. Never complain about your slow Internet again.