‘The scoop of the year’: In 1997, The Dallas Morning News made history online

touted a $1,600 desktop computer that came with the Windows 95 operating system, a 2.5 GB hard drive, and a 28.8 kbps fax/ modem.

The website would have regularly updated weather data, and users also had access to “special search features” to look through classifieds.was not the first major metropolitan newspaper to have an online presence, but Jeremy L. Halbreich, then-president and general manager, said “there has been demand” in the D-FW area and beyond forThe bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people and injured more than 600 others.

The story reported that McVeigh told his defense team how he alone had driven a truck filled with explosives that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and that he intentionally designed the bombing to leave a “body count.”’ story was sourced from confidential defense team reports. It appeared in print the next day.This type of publishing was brand new in 1997 and it quickly rippled throughout the news landscape.

Managing editor Stuart Wilk agreed at the time: “We thought the story was so significant we should publish it as soon as it was ready.”

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