1981 TV report on "electronic nespapers"

This is a 1981 local Bay Area TV news report about "electronic newspapers". Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.

They treat the idea that's basically the internet like crazy woo-woo science fiction. Electronic newspapers are to the internet what horseless carriages were to the car in 1981.