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On 21/08/2018 11:56, Andy Leighton wrote:
> 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 looked like teletext but ISTR it was a viewdata service and I still 
think that it is used today.
The main UK viewdata service was Prestel provided by the Post Office. It 
was not really a hit in private homes but it was in use in business and 
libraries.
Teletext was a very small subset of prestel pages that was not really 
interactive but instead allowed the TV to stop on a selected page from a 
continuously looped collection of pages.
Prestel and the like were fully interactive.

As a geeky child I used to live on a prestel terminal at the library, in 
return for me basically living on it the librarians used to use me as 
mentor for novice users.

My first real foray online.

Andy