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Phar Too Ambitious

The story of Phar-Mor, the pharmacy chain that decided that just being a pharmacy chain wasn’t interesting enough and tried to beat Walmart.

May 14, 2021

News In Small Bytes

Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.

Aug 11, 2020

That '70s Interactive TV

The story of Columbus, Ohio’s own QUBE Interactive Television, which—beyond breaking ground for cable TV—was social media for the ’70s, for good and bad.

Jun 26, 2018

 Related Tags: retail, retail quirks, internet history, internet, internet access, cable, cable tv, cable television history, qube, interactive tv, interactive, columbus, ohio, newspapers, business, journalism, basketball, jerry pournelle, associated press, bix

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