Talk:StarText
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I know that the StarText staff had a heads-up on the emerging technology of the Internet, because I told them about it at a couple of StarTexan meetings in 1989 and 1990. I encouraged them to incorporate Usenet and Internet content into their offerings, and essentially become an ISP for the StarTexan community. The response? They'd had a look at this Internet thing, and thought that their content model was superior and there wasn't any reason to spend their time on that Internet stuff. They had some notion that newspapers across the country would follow their lead, and the online experience of the future was just going to be a lot more of what they had already been providing. As noted in the article, this was not a winning strategy. (Wesley R. Elsberry, 11:01 AM PDT 20 March 2006)
