1992: The Sun said the internet would never work

THE Sun, the declining tabloid that gets its news from the internet, wrote in 1992:  “COMPUTER “WEB’ TO CHANGE BILLIONS OF LIVES (YEAH RIGHT).” The paper’s “Dot Comme” compared Tim Berners Lee’s invention – the world wide web – to Sir Clive Sinclair’s C5:

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