Past futures video from 1969 - forecasting by UK post office (via @martinduursma)
Check out the similarities - and the differences - to today's internet. Shades of the French Minitel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel). Think terminals on legs - for scanning - think printing by holding up photographic film to the screen. Not entirely steam punk, but lovely retro future and plausible if we withheld just a couple of display/printing breakthroughs.
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