Sujet : Do we miss Videotext and siblings?
De : yeti (at) *nospam* tilde.institute (yeti)
Groupes : comp.infosystemsDate : 01. Oct 2024, 07:59:14
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Ceefax: The Original News On Demand
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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.
Do we miss Videotext and siblings?