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Beyond the vocal sharing, the Twentieth Century made huge strides in the World Wide Web and the ability to content share. In 1979 dial-up internet service provided by the company CompuServe was a key player in online communications and how information began spreading beyond the print. Those with access to a computer in the earliest of stages could not comprehend the full effect that public access to the internet could or would create. It is hard to remember the times of newspapers being delivered to households across the country in order to receive their news for the day, and it was when The Columbus Dispatch out of Columbus, Ohio broke barriers when it was first to publish in online format. The success that was predicted by CompuServe and the Associated Press led to some of the largest newspapers to become part of the movement to publish the news via online format. (Insert Citation from Poynter website) Content sharing in the journalism world brings new advances to viral aspects of how news is spread in a matter of seconds.

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https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/today-in-media-history-compuserve-and-the-first-online-newspapers/