It has been 50 years since I first read about the thing that evolved into being the Internet: https://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
One popular new feature on the Net is [the] Associated Press service. From anywhere on the Net you can log in and get the news that’s coming live over the wire or ask for all the items on a particular subject that have come in during the last 24 hours. Plus a fortune cookie. Project that to household terminals, and so much for newspapers (in present form).
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Since huge quantities of information can be computer-digitalized [sic] and transmitted, music researchers could, for example, swap records over the Net with “essentially perfect fidelity.” So much for record stores (in present form).Stewart Brand
Rolling Stone
December 7, 1972