To celebrate Gulf News turning 40, we let young millennials in the office read the first edition of Gulf News ever published on September 30, 1978. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos
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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