We did it!
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See the problem is the dirigible should be up in air, not down in sea.
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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.
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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.
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Old newspapers were filled with ads too. The only thing that makes current ads obnoxious are the pop up's, video, and JavaScript tricks.
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.
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My God, they predicted Drudge Report
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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.
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Ah yes, I also remember Teletext!
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Even without that, it's quite a strange headline to use in an ad.
It really is. You'd think they'd choose a positive news story.
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Old newspapers were filled with ads too. The only thing that makes current ads obnoxious are the pop up's, video, and JavaScript tricks.
Old newspapers also didn't have ads breaking up the articles. None of this "ad between every paragraph" bullshit for the ancestors!
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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
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We did it!
But what did it cost?
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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.
