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Article: Chicago Tribune Real Estate Column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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Byline: Mary Umberger
Jul. 14--CHICAGO--How quaintly it reads today: A story in the Chicago Tribune in August 1995 announced the possibility that -- gasp -- real estate firms might use the Internet to sell houses.
The numbers seemed so impressive at the time: "Analysts speculate that the World Wide Web contains 500 to 700 home pages dedicated to the selling of real estate and related services among the 30,000 sites overall on the Web."
I remember it well because I wrote it. I also remember being buttonholed afterward by a real estate agent who was outraged. What a cockeyed idea, she fumed, that people could buy and sell houses electronically, ...