New Media Timeline (1986)

THE MEDIA

• March 1986 — The Knight Ridder Company ends its Viewtron videotex project. (See also: “Before the Web, There Was Viewtron” and “Viewtron Remembered Roundtable.” By Howard Finberg, Poynter Online, Oct. 2003.)
• The Times Mirror company ends its Gateway videotex project.
• “Videotex Players Seek a Workable Formula.” New York Times, March 25, 1986.
• July 16, 1986 — The first Free-net is launched in Cleveland, Ohio, at Case Western Reserve University.

• The Hamilton (Ontario) Spectatorlaunches a BBS new media site during 1986.

• News Example:
  Jan. 28, 1986 — Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion,
  New York Times.
  (Story available from
  database vendor services.)