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Article #625667Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Andy Leighton
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:56
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:56
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:17:56 -0000 (UTC), Ian <${send-direct-email-to-news1021...@jusme.com> wrote:
> On 2018-08-17, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> In this
>><http://www.bbc.com/future/gallery/20180816-do-you-recognise-these-obsolete-technologies>
>> BBC article children in the UK between six and 18 years were asked if
>> they'd recognize ancient technologies like floppy disks or rotary
>> phones. Suppose results in the rest of the world would had been similar.
>
> Seems like the author wasn't around at the time either...
>
> "Teletext was the equivalent service on channels such as ITV and Channel 4"
>
> Teletext was the technology, Ceefax was the BBC version and Oracle was the
> commercial one...
Teletext was also widely used in travel agents (usually over X.25) to
access tour operator sites to book holidays. That has disappeared
completely.
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