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Do we miss Videotext and siblings?

From yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
Newsgroups comp.infosystems
Subject Do we miss Videotext and siblings?
Date 2024-10-01 07:41 +0042
Organization Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
Message-ID <87r090qpfh.fsf@tilde.institute> (permalink)

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Hackaday
Ceefax: The Original News On Demand
<https://hackaday.com/2024/09/30/ceefax-the-original-news-on-demand/>

The German TV based sibling's pages were sent in cycles so not an on
demand service.  Some decoders cached seen pages, but waiting was part
of that experience.  I sometimes played with it when I was bored, but I
would not have missed it if the TVs would have come without it.

The phone based BTX wasn't used by anyone in my neighbourhood and I did
not have much fun with it in modem days.

A "normal BBSe" definitely was more fun.

Maybe for low bandwidth systems (LoRa?) and small displays, something
like this could make sense again?

-- 
I do not bite, I just want to play.

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Do we miss Videotext and siblings? yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-10-01 07:41 +0042
  Re: Do we miss Videotext and siblings? address@is.invalid (LucLan) - 2026-05-04 09:48 +0000

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