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De-classified: What really happened to newspapers – Mumbrella
In the mid-1990s the status of newspapers as the main source of news to society felt both indisputable and permanent.The Internet was a novelty. We accessed the web on dial-up modems, surfed pages using Netscape and searched for information on Yahoo!, Excite …
In the mid-1990s the status of newspapers as the main source of news to society felt both indisputable and permanent.
The Internet was a novelty. We accessed the web on dial-up modems, surfed pages using Netscape and searched for information on Yahoo!, Excite and Lycos. Around the same time, across the Pacific, Amazon had only just launched an obscure online bookstore.
In 1995, I began my career as a journalist at The Advertiser in Adelaide. The web was so niche that there were fevered debates…
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