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

It's a series of neon tubes!
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Published: Sep 22, 2014 07:30 pm

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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.

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