A 1935 example of the internet.

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> Hugo Gernsback started the magazines that became Popular Electronics and
> Radio Electronics. He was known for his predictions on the future of 
> electronics. In the February 1935 issue of Radio Craft (later Radio
> Electronics) he describes in some detail a future home radio that includes
> television and electronic delivery of the newspaper. It appears to allow two
> way communication.

Actually, he described that system earlier than that in his fiction, a novel published in 1929 (but I think was serialized in Amazing Stories first and another source says it was written in 1911) titled _Ralph 124C41+_.  (For those who don't know, Hugo Gernsback created the first magazines dedicated to science fiction, and the annual Hugo Awards, SF's "Oscars" as it were, are named after him).

The novel is full of cliches.  Well, they're cliches now.  They weren't then.
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