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Article #625668Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Elliott Roper
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:32
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:32
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On 21 Aug 2018, Andy Leighton wrote
(in article <slrnpnnrv...@azaal.plus.com>):
> 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.
That was Teletex (no final t) a different animal entirely. An ITU standard
that was hoped to be a successor to telex at one time
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