That is an impressively accurate-looking future TV for something drawn in 1934. TVs of the time looked something like this:
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This looks a LOT like a 1930s radio, combined with a microfilm viewer, which was very much available at libraries everywhere in the 1930s (and can still be found in archives today).
Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnam starts playing
Ah yes, I also remember Teletext!
It’s still a thing. I gotta listen to my granddad regularly that he wishes the internet was more like the teletext.
Remember tuning to the right page number and then having the screen flick over right when you arrived so you'd have to sit there for 5 minutes waiting for it to scroll round again? If the internet work like that we'd all have a lot more patience with each other.
Show him w3m in the terminal lol
He has a point
Kind of, now our telinewspaper mostly has made up bullshit
Insert picture of a modern newspaper page with 3 visible sentences of text and the rest is begging for subscriptions, sponsored content, straight up ads, and other bullshit.
Old newspapers were filled with ads too. The only thing that makes current ads obnoxious are the pop up's, video, and JavaScript tricks.
Well that’s not the only thing that makes them obnoxious, but it’s a huge contributor.
Old newspapers also didn't have ads breaking up the articles. None of this "ad between every paragraph" bullshit for the ancestors!
The did it with "continued on page 10". This forced you to flip through several pages of ads to get to the rest of the story. It wasn't just on the front page. They did it inside as well.
Yes, but that was generally because stories don't always fit nicely on a page. I've seen plenty of old-timey newspapers and laid out a few modern ones. It's all about what fits on the page.
Also, newspaper writers were paid like shit. E.A. Poe was the editor of a fairly big newspaper and a published author (though not very sucessful except for The Raven) and was still constantly on the verge of financial collapse.
Microfiche was a thing when I was in elementary school in the 80s. They taught us to use that and to use the Dewey Decimal System. Cue the meme of the guy holding the “I learned cursive for no reason,” sign.
I’ve been typing for so long that I have the handwriting of a child. It was never terribly legible. Now it’s like I’ve had a stroke.
Anyway, cool throwback.
Handwriting of a child; broke. Handwriting of a doctor; bespoke
See the problem is the dirigible should be up in air, not down in sea.
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point
History says otherwise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron -- Sank off the coast of New Jersey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_(ZRS-5) -- Sank off the coast of Monterey, California.
Wow, I misread "HM" as "HAHA" and had a different expectation of what the bottom text was going to be
Even without that, it's quite a strange headline to use in an ad.
Especially compared with his facial expression. He very much look like he is savouring the news.
It really is. You'd think they'd choose a positive news story.
.... and instead of reputable journalists and independent organizations printing our news for us on the television .... ANYONE with a pulse and a grade ten level of writing skill can publish anything for anyone to read .... and the evolution after that will be that ANYONE with access to a computer can use Artificial Intelligence to publish an entire feature news story out of thin air promoting whatever idea, theory, belief or information they want regardless if it is true or not and no one will be able to tell the difference.
We did it!
But what did it cost?
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My God, they predicted Drudge Report