[lerpapoo]

would be cool with one that just shows a fresh copy of the times on a wall everyday but picks one for the current day from random ones in the past. or maybe make it fun where it picks one from the past with similar headlines.

[capableweb]

Bonus points if you add a webcam that face scans the person who is standing in front of them, matches the face with the numerous profiles built from people (some combination of Facebook + Twitter + GitHub would probably find most people), get their birthday and show the frontpage from when they were born.

[kubami]

I am not sure if this is a reference to telescreen from 1984 or not.

[capableweb]

Kind of but the vital difference that the entities holding the data are for-profit companies with no oversight instead of governments with no oversight.

[thomk]

Or if they were ever in the paper..

[kilroy123]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Or better yet, if you touch the screen, it changes to show a random front-page from that "day in history".