This is amazing, especially if you were online at the time, feeling like you were on technology's bleeding edge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ
Acoustic cups at 300baud! Text-only monitors! And a newspaper guy saying "I don't think we'll make a lot of money off this..."
Come on Fred, that wasn't the Web, that was CompuServe, a really great service for the time if price were no object ($9.95/hr for 300 baud service, $24.95/hr for 1200 baud service, both during off-peak hours).
ReplyDeleteIf you had a personal computer like an Apple IIe, you could capture the output and read it at your leisure offline to keep costs down.