The Tablet Circa 1994

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In 1994, newspaper giant Knight-Ridder envisioned a tablet which looks very much like the ones that are finally being built. Too bad there was no way to get anywhere near it with mid-1990s technology…

 
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  1. infmom Says:

    Ten years earlier, Knight-Ridder had a graphics-oriented, interactive online newspaper and web service called Viewtron. They pulled the plug on it because they didn’t see any real market for an online newspaper.

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