Dug out during some research for a conference talk: this essay by Josh Quittner, published on Hotwired in 1995 but now only surviving at archive.org.
It’s the webpage that got me in to digital journalism. I read it and pretty much decided I should write my degree paper on digital newspapers, and I still remember the excitement I felt first picking through it and its implications. It’s pretty much spot on, too, apart from the bit about micropayments. We have Google ads instead, I guess.
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Vin Crosbie thought this on Sep 12 07 at 4:25 pmNeil:
Thanks for reminding me of Quittner’s early essay.
A dozen years after he wrote it, there’s irony in Quittner now being subject of news because his PRINTED magazine endeavor has gone out of business. [http://news.google.com/news?q=%22josh+quittner%22&]
I’m sure that during the 1480s many of Christopher Columbus’s peers openly speculated what might lie beyond the Atlantic horizon, yet they continued to sail only along familiar coasts a dozen years after 1492.
john thought this on Sep 13 07 at 7:45 pmits great to be able to go back and look at that kind of stuff. its amazing to see who was on or off.
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