As MediaSlackers breaks the 100-post mark, let’s have a look at online journalism circa 1981

February 4th, 2009 | Online Journalism

For those of you who haven’t yet seen this, I found the following video via Polymeme, via the Opinionator Blog from the New York Times, via TechCrunch who got it from a Twitter user by the name of Popurls who happened to find it on YouTube while he or she “was bored.” How far we have come since 1981:

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