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5 Ways Newspapers Botched the Web |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 13:51 |
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nicholas.m.carlson writes "Remember Knight-Ridder and AT&T"s Viewtron from 1983? With a $900 terminal and $12 a month, you could access news from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, online shopping, banking and food delivery, via a 300-baud modem. After sinking $16 million a year into the project, Knight-Ridder shut it down in 1986. That"s just the earliest of the 5 newspaper failures on the Web that Valleywag details in this post, writing: "each tale ends the same way: A promising start, shuttered amid fear, uncertainty, and doubt."" 
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