The Mercury boasted that San Jose was the first town west of the Rocky Mountains lighted by electricity.
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14 Facts About San Jose Mercury News
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Viet Mercury was the first Vietnamese-language newspaper published by an English-language daily.
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Mercury News benefited from its status as the major daily newspaper in Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble.
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For 20 years, the Mercury News was one of the country's top newspapers in the amount of advertising it ran.
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Mercury News was one of the first daily newspapers in the United States to have an online presence, and was the first to deliver full content and breaking news online.
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San Jose Mercury News Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.
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San Jose Mercury News Center ended its paywall in May 1998, after posting 1.
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Older San Jose Mercury News newsboxes have black, white, and green stripes, while newer Mercury News newsboxes bear the paper's logo in white against a blue background.
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Mercury News operates a paywalled website, which is located at mercurynews.
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Mercury News was one of the first daily newspapers in the United States to have an online presence and was the first to deliver full content and breaking news online.
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San Jose Mercury News Center shut down its AOL service in July 1996, leaving only the website.
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The Mercury News promoted the upcoming series on Usenet newsgroups weeks in advance.
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San Jose Mercury News Center published reporting and supporting material online simultaneously with the print edition.
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The Mercury News was named one of the five best-designed newspapers in the world by the Society for News Design for work done in 2001.
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