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In 1994, mainstream America was, at best, online via a 56k dial-up modem and AOL or Prodigy. Today Show hosts Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric were no exception. Watch them fumble over how to say out loud the “@” sign (Couric thought the symbol either meant “about” or “around”) and genuinely wonder, “What is the [...]
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This is too cute: Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel on the set of NBC’s “Today” show in 1994, utterly baffled by this new ‘Internet’ thing and the ‘@’ sign. [Via YouTube] Read Post

Nowadays, the Today Show is hip to the internet, but back in 1994 young Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel weren't so sure what to make of this newfangled computer thing. In fact, someone recently unearthed some footage of them puzzling... Read Post

(YouTube link) This vintage 1994 Today Show clip features a snarky Bryant Gumbel and a bubbly Katie Couric – sporting a hairdo that looks like it should have been preserved in a time capsule – both completely mystified at the termin... Read Post