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From: yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
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Subject: Do we miss Videotext and siblings?
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:41:14 +0042
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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.