10 Dec
2006
10 Dec
'06
5:15 a.m.
Message: 2
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:30:35 -0800
From: "Michael Holley" <swtpc6800 at comcast.net>
Subject: A 1935 example of the internet.
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Hugo Gernsback started the magazines that became
Popular Electronics and
Radio Electronics. He was known for his predictions on the future of
electronics. In the February 1935 issue of Radio Craft (later Radio
Electronics) he describes in some detail a future home radio that includes
television and electronic delivery of the newspaper. It appears to allow two
way communication.
Actually, he described that system earlier than that in his fiction, a novel published in
1929 (but I think was serialized in Amazing Stories first and another source says it was
written in 1911) titled _Ralph 124C41+_. (For those who don't know, Hugo Gernsback
created the first magazines dedicated to science fiction, and the annual Hugo Awards,
SF's "Oscars" as it were, are named after him).
The novel is full of cliches. Well, they're cliches now. They weren't then.
--
Ward Griffiths wdg3rd at comcast.net
When you let people do whatever they want, you get Woodstock. When you let
governments do whatever they want, you get Auschwitz. Doug Newman