Check out the first ever Zwickelmania this Valentine’s Day – Nothing says love like beer.

With the now common usage of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Myspace, it’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t have social media, let alone the internet.  It now seems commonplace to receive an online version of your daily paper,but that most definitely wasn’t the case in 1981.  Check out the YouTube video below for a humorous take on the internet’s place in news distribution and how it could be applied to newspaper sales.

1981 primitive Internet report on KRON

It makes you stop and think – what cutting edge technology will seem completely pedestrian in 28 years?  Am I the only one hoping for flying cars?