Soon after AOL confirmed it had purchased WebTV rival NetChannel and begun developing AOLTV, Wired dispatched me to Dulles, Virginia, for a bit of dumpster diving. Sure enough, I found a plan to package television programming and Net services all in one interface. Take a look at AOL's brainstorm below. Says Barry Schuler, president of interactive services, "We think we can make TV better." Yeah, right.
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