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Man Who Posted Katie Couric 'What Is Internet?' Video Gets Fired (Report)

The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro claims the man "got canned"

10:35 AM PST 2/4/2011 by THR staff
Katie Couric & Bryant Gumbel
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Last week, a 1994 Today show clip - in which then-co-anchor Katie Couric asked, "What is the Internet?" - instantly went viral.

Now, The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro reports the man who posted it has been fired.
 
In a Tweet, Pegoraro writes: "The guy who posted the 1994 Today Show "what is Internet?" clip on YouTube e-mailed to say he got canned for that. Ugh."
 
Salon reports the man worked for NBC.
 
The clip also features Bryant Gumbel and and Elizabeth Vargas struggling to understand the Today show's new email address.
 
"At?" asks Vargas.
 
"See, that's what I said," says Gumbel. "Katie said she thought it was 'about.'"
 
"Or 'around' or 'about,'" Couric says.
 
Current Today show co-anchor Matt Lauer recently joked about it with Al Roker and Ann Curry.
 
"It's easy to laugh now," he said on-air, "but we all felt that way. It was a mystery to all of us.
 
"I talked to Bryant last night about that clip," he later joked. "He has become quite tech savvy — he just bought a Sony Walkman."


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