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Article #625669Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Andy Leighton
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 08:27
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 08:27
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:32:53 +0100, Elliott Roper <nos...@yrl.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
No. It was viewdata (just a specific implementation of Videotext/Teletext)
over X.25. I worked at Thomas Cook and dealt with it extensively, both on
the X.25 comms level and writing code which sat in front of the
viewdata systems driving them and screen-scraping stuff.
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