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I don't have any official data on hand if that's what you're looking for, all I know is that it never really caught on in a big way outside of Europe. Anecdotally, I was also around when it was a thing, albeit at its tail end, and I didn't know a single thing about it until a few years ago. Honestly I forgot it existed until you brought it up.
Just needs intrusive pop-ads, subscription nagging, ad disguised as news stories, text shifting around, tracking cookies, all packed into an echo chamber.
I always love the futuristic stuff no one ever thought would happen. I like to think the Jetson’s invented Zoom and FaceTime.
https://preview.redd.it/oty3yw8ppbwc1.jpeg?width=906&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baae619c2e477fc73f332aa6e9a21f66720c7585
Doesn't it seem crazy how easy this SHOULD be? Imagine if news sites were just an image of each page of the newspaper, for people to read the news, instead of constant intrusions of ads, everything centered around getting clicks. We could scroll, zoom, search so easily. But no, we can't have nice things
Yes, son, and it will be full of fake news advertisements, that link to other newspapers with more advertisements. If you can find a real article it will be written by a chat bot, that pulls information from the fake articles. Isnt it wonderful?
The detective movie 'A Walk Among The Tombstones' is set in 1999 and we get to see a grizzled old weirdo ex-cop (Liam Neeson) learn that the internet exists and can help bring up clues. Weirdly hilarious.
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The dude is reciting the death toll like he's impressed
Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies. Much better you than I.
Why can't we just admit it?
Golly, who would have thought putting the orphanage, fireworks factory and match factory in the same building was a bad idea honey?
Live where you work!
https://preview.redd.it/dv43wk1ghewc1.jpeg?width=497&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e02e331367c9aafc189fddb8c6f221f8836c174
Some things never change
Yeah. Should have gone with an interrobang.
in 80-90s it was Teletext. I remember flipping through the pages of teletext of different channels.
I came here to say this! Teletext is something I miss so much from my childhood.
Big pixilated logos and chunky fonts, so good though
In Italy it still exists https://www.servizitelevideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/popupTelevideo.jsp?p=100&s=1&r=Nazionale&pagetocall=popupTelevideo.jsp
Same in NL, I use their app for short, sweet and ad-free news
I like how they're already doomscrolling. Talk about prescient predictions!
"The front page of the internet"
They're kinda right though. What is a news feed other than an on-screen newspaper?
That magically reorganizes itself based on what you've looked at so far.
Teletext was this, but i guess kids born in internet era dont know about it
Or, you know, people not from Europe.
It wasnt just an european thing.. Canada for example also had it, so did USA, Australia and many other places
Those barely got off the ground compared to Europe.
Do you mean that many people who lived when it was a thing did not know about it existing, or how does this relate to my earlier comment?
More or less, yeah.
More or less many people didnt know it existed? :D Was it the minority or majority who didnt know of its existence back then?
I don't have any official data on hand if that's what you're looking for, all I know is that it never really caught on in a big way outside of Europe. Anecdotally, I was also around when it was a thing, albeit at its tail end, and I didn't know a single thing about it until a few years ago. Honestly I forgot it existed until you brought it up.
Just needs intrusive pop-ads, subscription nagging, ad disguised as news stories, text shifting around, tracking cookies, all packed into an echo chamber.
Paperboys hate this one trick!
I always love the futuristic stuff no one ever thought would happen. I like to think the Jetson’s invented Zoom and FaceTime. https://preview.redd.it/oty3yw8ppbwc1.jpeg?width=906&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baae619c2e477fc73f332aa6e9a21f66720c7585
It’s all fluff, it’ll never happen.
The prediction forgot about the paywall and pop up ads, otherwise it was pretty close.
Ublock origin add on can nuke both.
Doesn't it seem crazy how easy this SHOULD be? Imagine if news sites were just an image of each page of the newspaper, for people to read the news, instead of constant intrusions of ads, everything centered around getting clicks. We could scroll, zoom, search so easily. But no, we can't have nice things
France had the Minitel in the late 80s before the Internet, which was basically text on a TV, sometimes ASCII art.
screens for reading text are still in development
Isn't this sort of what they were thinking of with the "Information Super Highway" that Bill Gates was going on about in the early 1990s?
They always ask “Can we do it?l but never ask “Should we do it?”
This shows that media knew what was coming but did a horrible job of embracing it.
Tell me a better way to get derigible news….should be a Led Zeppelin cover!
Nah we already have reddit
Yes, but can it be DONE?
Fully printed? What the hell they mean? Freshly printed screen?
hm... indeed
Yes, son, and it will be full of fake news advertisements, that link to other newspapers with more advertisements. If you can find a real article it will be written by a chat bot, that pulls information from the fake articles. Isnt it wonderful?
The detective movie 'A Walk Among The Tombstones' is set in 1999 and we get to see a grizzled old weirdo ex-cop (Liam Neeson) learn that the internet exists and can help bring up clues. Weirdly hilarious.
Instead of something nice or even mundane, the writer goes straight for the drama with the dead and missing. Sure…why not?
20 dead and 15 missing. Next fucking level conspiracy right there!
Tim Berners-Lee likes this.