5 Ways Newspapers Botched the Web 136
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.'"
Ha ha! (Score:4, Funny)
Your medium is dying!
Re:Paper and gasoline-based dinosaurs (Score:3, Funny)
But I can't line the bird cage with internets. Thank goodness for old media!
Re:Paper and gasoline-based dinosaurs (Score:4, Funny)
Newspapers are still good at local city and neighborhood news and ads for local retailers.
You must be kidding, I read about things via Google news the day before they're printed in the local paper.
I actually had a few of my non-web friends thinking I'm psychic for awhile.
Knight-Ridder (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe folks just couldn't get used to Kitt's computerized voice...
Re:Ha ha! (Score:2, Funny)
Your medium is dying!
Good riddance, you either keep up or be left behind.
At takes about 2 days for some news to hit the papers, I often find myself reading old news.
Re:Ha ha! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1 Way Slashdot is Turning Into Digg (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Newpapers have their place (Score:4, Funny)
I know I could not light my fire with my laptop.
Apparently you don't have a Sony battery. [engadget.com]
2 Ways the web botched the newspaper (Score:2, Funny)
2.) I do it anyway.