{"id":118,"date":"2011-05-19T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisschweppe.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-05-19T15:34:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:34:01","slug":"newspaper-creates-ipad-in-1994-then-they-drop-it-because-print-is-more-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Creates iPad In 1994 &#038; Drops It Because Print Is More Profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisschweppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/knight-ridder-tablet.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120\" title=\"knight ridder tablet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisschweppe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/knight-ridder-tablet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right. I came across a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ipad-1994-2011-4\"> jaw-dropping story<\/a> from Business Insider saying that a newspaper called &#8220;Knight Ridder&#8221;, created a prototype that is very iPad-like in 1994. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ipad-1994-2011-4\">video about it<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n<p>It was called a &#8220;tablet&#8221; and the &#8220;electronic newspaper of the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Then Knight Ridder was sold to McClatchy. Word has it that the &#8220;tablet&#8221; was dropped because at the time, print was so much more profitable that this electronic contraption wasn&#8217;t worth their time.<\/p>\n<p>How sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that right. I came across a jaw-dropping story from Business Insider saying that a newspaper called &#8220;Knight Ridder&#8221;, created a prototype that is very iPad-like in 1994&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc-2","category-mobile","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}