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Kind of, now our telinewspaper mostly has made up bullshit
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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.
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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.
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Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnam starts playing
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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.
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It’s still a thing. I gotta listen to my granddad regularly that he wishes the internet was more like the teletext.
He has a point
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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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That is an impressively accurate-looking future TV for something drawn in 1934. TVs of the time looked something like this:
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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).
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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.
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See the problem is the dirigible should be up in air, not down in sea.
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.
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It’s still a thing. I gotta listen to my granddad regularly that he wishes the internet was more like the teletext.
Show him w3m in the terminal lol
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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.
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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.
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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.
I feel this so hard. “Library Science” was like, “if you don’t know the Dewey system, you wont be able to use libraries and then you’re DOOMED”.
I sometimes forget how to write by hand now.
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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).
wrote on last edited by [email protected]A microfilm viewer is definitely the inspiration, but is this 1930s? It looks more like 1950s to me. Even then, notice that the thing holding the screen is huge. I can't find an image of a definitively 1930s one, but I did find this proof of concept for a home one from 1935. Pretty different form factor.
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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.
If a throw down on cool and even more old and useless skills learned in schools is what you want, I'm for today. Not only did I need to learn learn about the Dewey Decimal System and cursive hand writing, (as a lefty I was nearly forced to learn to write right handed in school), but I had to learn how to use a slide rule. Calculators weren't around until I was about 17. Now everyone carries one and can't do any math.
Television as a working concept was solidly in place by the 1920s. They just needed to agree on a standard, make the tech cheap enough, and get broadcast stations built. Had WW2 not interrupted things, we might have had television as a bigger commercial thing sooner than the 1950s/1960s. The clipping does look like the style of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics of the 1930's era though.
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It’s still a thing. I gotta listen to my granddad regularly that he wishes the internet was more like the teletext.
My mother sent me a screenshot from teletext the other day.
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A microfilm viewer is definitely the inspiration, but is this 1930s? It looks more like 1950s to me. Even then, notice that the thing holding the screen is huge. I can't find an image of a definitively 1930s one, but I did find this proof of concept for a home one from 1935. Pretty different form factor.
I don't think they had passenger dirigibles in the 1950s, they were phased out earlier. They crashed and burned too much.
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Teletext! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
I think it was more of a thing outside of the US. It looks cool though.
