Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: yeti Newsgroups: comp.infosystems Subject: Do we miss Videotext and siblings? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:41:14 +0042 Organization: Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <87r090qpfh.fsf@tilde.institute> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:59:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6a46b96c1febf0cac4a552026a725acc"; logging-data="2777150"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182ZjBDrzUO8tRn6oA6YWa/" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EpZHHeRM5Pt1N6J143hgXEbFXD0= sha1:p/sbVHbS0wrXubrVX9cJw9hcyaQ= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAAiklEQVQY02NgoCUQOASmOJwPAElGjuQfIIrH8A9IsK3wJ0jFMcPHDUAVxywPNzCw8Dy3bD7AwMzy+Q/7AQbGvuq57QsYGI+brz+fwMDw+9re/x8YGLPcFP8/YGBccaTg4QcG5o4WBeYGBnaBngTDBJBFDvUHQBY5/G8AWXHgH9j65h9gitmBgfYAAJOqKugnjqEOAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: "-Nh[_Q`f/iywEEk*gL\V>5N1AB*"sDJ8;EUV=C-0Y@WB9ePs{Cw>dh=u?}LO}?T(5_L2HX `mj:w>@KY3N6`v6Y!/<)"&OTwwj<}i=2g^/|Mp#95.z4HsbUizxbZ*4X085{X||BvThEN9wD=Q1o7" 5d3u_b|SUTt Bytes: 2097 Hackaday 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.