1981 news discusses the beginning of the internet

If you are under 20, it is practically impossible to imagine a world without internet, right? However, in 1981, what was unthinkable was the existence of such a system that would connect so many people at once. Nevertheless, the innovations that would result in the internet were already starting to pop up that year.

This can be seen in this news that announced an incredible news for the time: the reading of daily newspapers through the computer, which could be connected through a telephone line with a connection between Columbus (Ohio) and San Francisco (California) in the United States. United.

It took about two hours to transfer newspaper information over the telephone connection. The interviewee in the video says about how effective the system is, that it might even have the option to copy and print content, a breakthrough at the time.