1969 Promo Clip on the Future "Internet" (Posted by X.) by X.

From our brother Sean:

"Here's a similar one, claiming to be from 1969. The sexism certainly seems to be authentic..."

1969 Promo Clip on the coming Internet

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Wow. What a find! The creepy voiceover and bizarre sexist conception of technology implementation in this presentation gives it even more of a Twilight Zone vibe.

What's so fascinating is that this 1969 film cannot grasp the transformative possibilities of the internet as a many-to-many communications platform, it merely presents it as an automated version of existing one-way commercial services... really an uninspired capitalist outlook with frozen social relations (note how the kids are monitored on camera but not allowed anywhere near the computers!).

1981 TV News Report on the Intertubes (X.) by X.

If you want to grasp the full impact of the technological revolution that is the internet, enjoy this classic clip.

Yes, there was life before the internet. And yes, it now looks like an episode from the Twilight Zone ("What if we lived in a disconnected world where people struggled to get information?").