5 Ways Newspapers Botched the Web

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 23, 2008 @10:51AM from the but-they're-getting-better dept.

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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Ha ha! by Anonymous Coward · 2008-08-23 10:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Your medium is dying!
1. Re:Ha ha! by strelitsa · 2008-08-23 12:23 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Well, its a rare medium that is well done.
  
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