Thursday, July 28, 2022

A comic published in 1997 predicted online schooling in 2021 with eerie accuracy - Annie Reneau, Upworthy

In 1997, we used the internet primarily for email and for the novelty of being able to look things up on the "worldwide web." The internet as we know it wasn't even 10 years old and was a tiny fraction of one percent the size it is now. And yet, Archie Comics got one thing eerily right in a 1997 Betty comic titled "High School 20201 A.D." Virtual, online school.