I'm a news junkie, and I get most of my news online.
For the moment, you can access just about any newspaper, magazine, television or radio station in the world through the web. Using RSS feeds I aggregate the news I read most often and access it through a program called a news reader. (I use Google's version, but there are many others.)
So what, Boyd? The whole world gets their news that way now. This is true, but I've been getting much of my news online for almost thirty years now.
It all started in the 1980's when I joined Compuserve. Compuserve wasn't the first online service I'd used, but it was the first to offer and AP news feed. They also experimented with including other online news services.
Below is a 1981 television report on the early stages of Compuserve's news services
The services available on Compuserve expanded quickly as modem and PC technology evolved. Below is a 1991 TV ad for Compuserve
So for those of you who are just now learning all you can do online, welcome to the party! We've been around for almost 30 years now.
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