Roger Ebert talks about streaming films online. In 2000.

Film Cleverer people than me are already writing about what we've lost with Roger Ebert. What's less known is he was something of a web pioneer, writing a regular column for Yahoo Internet Life! Here he is giving a generous interview in 2000, that's 2000 at the online film festival. Everything he says here has since come to pass. Note, this is five years before YouTube:



The reporter's a bit of a pioneer herself, working as she does for an online news website, four years before Rocketboom. RIP Roger.

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