00:00Look at these ads. Look at the size of them. My god people were flush with money. It looks it looks old
00:07I wonder
00:12Yep
00:17Whoo
00:20You
00:25So it's the 40th anniversary of Gulf News this month and I managed to get my hands on the first edition we ever
00:32Published and it was published on September 30th in
00:361978 which is crazy. That's longer than I've been alive
00:40So I'm just gonna look through this which is probably gonna be such a crazy experience since
00:46I don't know like I don't even read newspapers anymore. I mean, I know I work here
00:51But it's all about the website these days. This was 30 years ago
00:56Exactly 40 years exactly 40 years ago. Oh my god
01:01We are
01:05That was a happy day for many people
01:07Oh
01:09This story is about both news itself, that is so cool. So like the first issue
01:15Yeah, that's really nice of like how it all started. That's really nice. We should like take time and do that
01:21something
01:23Damn, look at that
01:28We're out of the stories it's all ads so our advertising rates 80 fills per word for classifieds
01:37Wow, that was like a whole other world back then look ads ads ads ads. Where are the stories guides?
01:47That's the TV guys I used to remember this from my childhood used to see when it's cartoon
01:55So they have here Dubai TV Abu Dhabi
02:00BBC overseas
02:02celebrating the birth of Gulf News and
02:05An 11,000 copies printed. Oh my god
02:11Interesting interesting
02:13Wow, this is crazy. So this is
02:16September 30th, and it's priced at wonder hub. This is back in the day
02:34You
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