Image Minitel1.jpg thumb 250px Minitel was perhaps the most successful videotex service worldwide. This Minitel 1 terminal was an early device used for connecting to Minitel. Videotex or interactive videotex ... format, typically to be displayed on a television . In a strict definition, videotex refers to systems ... generically. Unlike the modern Internet, traditional videotex services were highly centralized. Videotex .... This usage is no longer common. With the exception of Minitel in France, videotex elsewhere ... development and technologies United Kingdom The first attempts at a general purpose videotex service .... A very simple 2 way videotex system called Tictac was also demonstrated in the mid 1970s. As in the UK, this led on to work to develop a common display standard for videotex and teletext, called Antiope ... videotex teletext service, and committed to a four year development plan to encourage rollout. Compared ... machine s. This led to a videotex system called Captain videotex Captain Character and Pattern ... teletext system launched in 1983 . Standards Work to establish an international standard for videotex ... Information Exchange for International Videotex , Geneva, 1980 amended Malaga 1984 alternate ... , 28 May 1981 ref ref http books.google.co.uk books?id Kj0EAAAAMBAJ&pg PA33 Special Section Videotex ... interested in videotex, and had convened discussions in European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications ... Equipment Videotex presentation layer protocol Videotex presentation layer data syntax , November ... and CEPT 4, the Swedish Prestel Plus. National videotex services were encouraged to follow one of the existing ... etsi i ets 300001 300099 300073 01 60 ets 300073e01p.pdf Videotex presentation layer data syntax ... 300001 300099 300074 01 60 ets 300074e01p.pdf Videotex presentation layer data syntax Transparent ... 300075 01 60 ets 300075e01p.pdf Videotex processable data . 1990 . Based on CEPT Recommendation ... deliver etsi i ets 300001 300099 300076 01 60 ets 300076e01p.pdf Videotex Terminal Facility ... more details
The Captain system Character and Pattern Access Information Network System was a Japan ese videotex system created by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone NTT . Announced in 1978, it was trialled from 1979 to 1981, with a second larger trial held from 1982 to 1983. The service launched commercially in 1983. It was closed on March 31, 2002. Captain differed from comparable European videotex systems by not being based on the transmission of alphanumeric characters. The Japanese kanji character set has over 3,500 characters, and in the late 1970s to try to include a character generator in the user s terminal that could retain and then generate so many characters on demand was seen as prohibitive. Instead pages were therefore substantially sent to the end user as pre rendered images, using coding strategies similar to facsimile machine s. By December 1985 Captain had 650 information providers, and the next year was rolled out to 245 cities. However, by March 1992 the system still only had 120,000 subscribers. Like other videotex systems worldwide with the exception of the French Minitel , it never broke though to achieve mass market usage. External links http www.geocities.co.jp Milkyway Vega 1971 captain frame.htm Thanks Captain ja Category videotex Category Pre World Wide Web online services ja ... more details
Image alextel.jpg thumb Alextel unit Alex was the name of an interactive videotex information service offered by Bell Canada in market research from 1988 to 1990 and thence to the general public until 1994. The Alextel terminal rented to customers was a NAPLPS terminal with Cathode ray tube CRT , attached Keyboard computing keyboard , and a 1200 bit s modem for use on regular phone lines. In 1991 proprietary software was released for IBM PC s that allowed computer users to access the network. The system operated in the same fashion as Minitel , whereby users connected to various content providers. The most popular and most expensive sites were chat rooms. Using the service could cost as much as 0.30 CA per minute, and many users terminated their subscription upon receiving their first invoice. The advent of the World Wide Web contributed to making this service obsolete. On 29 April 1994, Bell Canada sent a letter to its customers announcing that the service would be terminated on 3 June 1994. In that letter, Mr. T.E. Graham, then Director of Business Planning for Bell Advanced Communications, stated that Quite simply, the ALEX network is not the right vehicle, nor the appropriate technology, at this time to deliver the information goods needed in our fast paced society. The Alextel terminal is reportedly usable as a dumb terminal for VT100 emulation. References Serge Proulx 1991 . The Videotex Industry in Qu bec The Difficulties of Mass Marketing Telematics. David Leibold, ALEX Service Starting in Toronto, Montreal , message 4727 accuvax.nwu.edu posted to comp.dcom.telecom on 1990 03 04 Dave Leibold, Bell Canada Alex Videotex Service Officially Closing , message telecom14.210.8 eecs.nwu.edu posted to comp.dcom.telecom on 1994 05 10. Jakub Dalek, Re Terminal Woes AlexTel , message 7846b2d8.0306250727.69c660e2 posting.google.com posted to comp.terminals on 2003 06 25 Category 1990 establishments Category 1994 disestablishments Category Videotex Category History of the Internet ... more details
Videotext is another name for Teletext which is a broadcast one way information service. It should not be confused with Videotex which is an interactive two way information service. disambig cleanup de Videotext ... more details
For the software used by Bell Canada s Alex service Alex videotex service Context date May 2010 Notability date July 2010 Alex is a lexical analysis lexer generator written in Haskell programming language Haskell , such as Lex software Lex . It is contained in the Haskell Platform , along with Glasgow Haskell Compiler GHC , Happy software Happy and Cabal software Cabal . Category Compiling tools Category Haskell software programming software stub ... more details
gave the videotex services the advantage of a single graphics standard to design their pages to, and it positioned ... 1985 05 13 business 0300080124 1 videotex hibbert free software Videotex market ... v22 ai 638103 pg 8 ?tag content col1 Brighter picture is emerging for business videotex , Communications ... books?id sy4EAAAAMBAJ&pg PA11 Micros get videotex support , Infoworld , 14 May 1984, p. 11 ref Its ... Floridians experiment with videotex buying , Infoworld , April 9, 1984. Includes discussion of the Sceptre. Category Videotex Category Computer terminals Category 1983 introductions ... more details
BTX may refer to Bildschirmtext , an interactive videotex system launched in 1983 in West Germany BTX process , a process involving mixtures of Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene B t X , a science fiction manga and anime television series created by Masami Kurumada BTX boot loader , the standard boot loader for FreeBSD BTX form factor , a form factor for PC motherboards Backstreets Magazine BTX , popular Internet forum for fans of musician Bruce Springsteen Batrachotoxin , a neurotoxic poison that blocks sodium channels disambig de BTX fr BTX it BTX nl BTX pt BTX ... more details
in Austria and Switzerland , where it was called Videotex VTX . External links http dcsutherland.smugmug.com ... Article on the launch of the system. Category 1983 introductions Category Videotex Category Telecommunications ... more details
about the automobile remote control accessory HomeLink Wireless Control System the house swap organisation http www.homelink.org Homelink was the UK s first online banking system. It was set up by the Nottingham Building Society in 1983 in association with the Bank of Scotland , using the UK Post Office United Kingdom Post Office s Prestel Viewdata system. The account was with the Nottingham Building Society and bills could be paid online. Access to cash was enabled by transferring money to the Bank of Scotland and then withdrawing from one of their Automated teller machine ATMs . Homelink were the main sponsors of the 1984 World s Strongest Man competition held in New Zealand . The winner of this contest was Geoff Capes . Category Banks of the United Kingdom Category Videotex Category Companies established in 1983 Category Online banks UK bank stub ... more details
The National Center for University Entrance Exams or colloquially , dokuritsu gy sei h jin Daigaku Nyushi Center , DNC is an Independent Administrative Institution that administers the National Center Test for University Admissions and law school entrance exams in Japan . It is under the control of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology . History 1977 Established as the preparation organization for the Common first stage exam 1979 First common first stage exam 1988 Started providing information on University universities through the videotex with its Heart System 1990 Became the administrator of the National Center Test for University Admissions 2003 Began administering law school entrance exams See also Independent Administrative Institution Independent Administrative Institution IAI , 2001 List of Independent Administrative Institutions Japan External links http www.dnc.ac.jp Daigaku Nyushi Center website http www.heart.dnc.ac.jp Heart System website Japan gov stub Japan edu stub Category Testing and exams in Japan Category Government of Japan ja ... more details
Image Minitel1.jpg thumb 250px Minitel 1. Built 1982 The Minitel is a Videotex online service accessible through the telephone lines, and is considered one of the world s most successful pre World Wide Web online services. It was launched in France in 1982 by the PTT Poste, T l phone et T l communications divided since 1991 between France T l com and La Poste France La Poste . From its early days, users could make online purchases, make train reservations, check stock prices, search the telephone directory , have a mail box, and chat in a similar way to that now made possible by the Internet . Business model Image Minitel1980.jpg thumb Minitel built 1980 Millions of computer terminal terminal s were handed out free to telephone subscribers, resulting in a high Market penetration penetration rate among businesses and the public. In exchange for the terminal, the possessors of Minitel would not be given free white page printed directories alphabetical list of residents and firms , but only the yellow pages classified commercial listings, with advertisements the white pages were accessible for free on Minitel, and they could be searched by a reasonably intelligent search engine much faster than flipping through a paper directory. France T l com estimates that almost 9 million terminals .... Canada Bell Canada experimented with a Minitel based system known as Alex videotex service AlexTel ... two platforms Viditel and Videotex Nederland . ref Note Detailed information on these services via nl Videotex Nederland Videotex Nederland and nl Viditel Viditel on the nl Hoofdpagina Dutch Wiki ref The main difference was that Viditel used one big central host where Videotex used a central access ... by others. The Videotex services offered access via several Premium rate telephone number primary rate ... network named Travelnet used the same platform as Videotex Nl for the travel industry. South ... History of the Internet Category France T l com Category Legacy systems Category Videotex Category ... more details
, Ontario . Telidon from the Greek words tele distant and idon I see was a videotex teletext service .... ref name b By the mid 1970s several European countries were in the process of introducing videotex ... rooms by using videotex, ref Paul Muter, Susane Latremouille, and William Treurniet, http ... government, to fund development of their system into the basis for a videotex service. Unlike the systems ... for one way fixed or menued displays teletext , two way systems based on modem s videotex , or they could ... and lobbying in videotex standards negotiations. ref name b In 1979 the DoC formed the Canadian Videotex Consultative Committee to advise the Minister on ways to commercialize the CRC s work, and develop ... and will have just as great a social impact, a representative of the Videotex Consultative ... with the idea of a videotex service, and were drawn towards the Telidon efforts. In 1982 they rolled ... Diego Union Tribune , 10 March 1985, p. 11 ref ref Chronicle Videotex Acquires U.S. Teleguide rights ... One experiments in 1982 3, AT&T decided not to pursue a videotex service of its own, but instead ... more and more features. As it operated over modems in a pure videotex format, it was able to offer ... of these reasons, interest in Telidon, and Videotex in general, quickly faded. The government s funding ... of a similar and wider conversation on the entire concept of videotex that took place in the late 1980s ... of the Dominant Model of Videotex as a Telecommunications Service as Exemplified by Prestel and Telidon ... cite journal ref harv last Proulx first Serge authorlink coauthors year 1991 month title The Videotex ... Paisley, http www.comm.ucsb.edu faculty rrice A8RicePaisley1982.pdf The Green Thumb videotex experiment ... A Canadian Proposal for Videotex Systems , CRC Technical Note No. 697 E, Department of Communications, December 1978 Dave Godfrey and Ernest Chang, The Telidon Book Designing and Using Videotex ... Category Videotex Category Canadian inventions ... more details
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is a Canadian artist run centre and electronic media production facility in Toronto . Founded in 1982 as Toronto Community Videotex, InterAccess is Ontario Ontario s only exhibition space devoted exclusively to electronic art electronic media arts . ref http www.interaccess.org about history.php ref The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art places the founding of InterAccess as a key moment in both the history of Canadian electronic art but also within a timeline of developments in international art, science, technology and culture. ref http www.ccca.ca circuit4 timeline.html?languagePref fr& Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art Timeline of Digital Art ref History In 1983, InterAccess was incorporated as a not for profit, Not for profit arts organization artist run access centre , under the name Videotex Toronto Community Videotex TCV . It provided artists access to the Telidon system, a precursor of the World Wide Web . The early conception of electronic art placed the organization within the production cooperative system in Canada. ref Shaw, Cultural Democracy and Institutional Difference , p. 31 ref TCV s members created artworks which fell within the more systems art systems based notions of art production, rather than the Fine arts beaux arts ref Dowler, Interstitial Aesthetics and the Politics of Video at the Canada Council , pp. 35 6 ref aesthetic of the museum. ref Hough, Beyond the Gallery Electronic Mail Art , p. 15 ref , The name change to InterAccess in 1987 reflected a new focus on Macintosh graphics, multimedia production and a dial up artists network much like a Bulletin Board System , or BBS known as Matrix. ref Mann, The Matrix Artists Network An Electronic Community , pp. 230 31 ref InterAccess moved to a larger facility in 1995 allowing InterAccess to offer a gallery and production space that expanded its activities beyond simply access to multimedia production. The exhibitions began to emphasize the finishe ... more details
wiktionary KIT or kit may refer to TOCRight kit is the dj name of christopher disjunkt Animals kit, a young ferret kitten , a short form, a young cat Kit Fox , relatively common North American fox Kit, a group of domestic pigeon s trained to perform together in competitions Companies and organisations Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , a German research university. Kanazawa Institute of Technology , a Japanese technology and engineering college Kyoto Institute of Technology , a Japanese technology and engineering college Kunst im Tunnel , a museum of contemporary art in D sseldorf KIT AM , a radio station in Yakima, Washington Music Drum kit , collection of drums, cymbals, etc. arranged for convenient playing Kit violin , a small stringed musical instrument People a given name, see Kit given name Barys Kit , a Belarusian scientist Sport Kit rugby football , the standard equipment and attire worn by players in Rugby football Kit association football , the standard equipment and attire worn by players in association football Technology Software development kit , a set of tools to create an application Electronic kit an assembly kit for any electronic equipment, including a computer Kernel for Intelligent Communication Terminals KIT , a communications protocol for the German Bildschirmtext videotex system Kit lens , a low end SLR camera lens Other KIT gene KIT , a gene Body hygiene kit , a small bag for storing bathroom toiletry items for travel First aid kit , a collection of supplies and equipment for use in giving first aid Kingston Interactive Television , a digital television service formerly provided by Kingston Communications Kit Fisto , a fictional Star Wars character Plastic model Plastic kit , a model supplied as individual parts of moulded plastic for assembly by hobbyists. Press kit , a pre packaged set of promotional materials of a person, company, or organization See also Kit s Coty , a small village in the English county of Kent KITT , two fictional cha ... more details
morerefs date July 2009 Infobox Software name PC Talk logo Image Pctalk.jpg 250px screenshot caption About dialog developer latest release version latest release date operating system MS DOS genre Communications Software license website PC Talk was a communications software program. It was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware . It was originally written by Andrew Fluegelman , in late 1982, ref Sharewars An Alternative to the Hight Cost of Software , Damon Camille , 1987 ref and with it created the shareware category of software, its sales and marketing methodology. ref Electronic Bulletin Boards for Law Libraries , Bruce Cummings Miller , 1990 ref Though PC Talk is regarded as a progenitor of the shareware distribution model, it was labeled at the time both freeware and user supported software , and included elements of open source software but not free software . Its source code was available and many derivative works were created by its user community. The CompuServe IBM PC Special Interest Group SIG forum developed PC TALK III Version B, Level 850311 . Both the user modified version of the program and the CompuServe distribution point were officially sanctioned by Fluegelman and The Headlands Press, holders of the copyright for PC TALK. Members of http www.hal pc.org HAL PC also produced custom versions that supported videotex and IBM 3101 Terminal emulator emulation . ref cite book title The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications last Glossbrenner first Alfred publisher St. Martin s Press year 1985 location New York, NY isbn 0 312 15760 6 pages 111 112, 497 498 ref References reflist Category Software Category Shareware Category Discontinued software software stub telecom stub ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2008 Planet Internet is a defunct Internet service provider ISP in the Netherlands , Germany and Belgium . The Netherlands Planet Internet Nederland was a brand of the Planet Media Group , a subsidiary of KPN and one of the biggest ISP of the Netherlands. Planet Internet opened office in 1995, offering services such as Internet access and content. In 1997 the company merged with World Access , also founded in 1995, changing its name to World Access Planet Internet. In 1999 the prefix World Access was dropped to simplify the name to just Planet Internet. In the same year, the holding company of Planet Internet, Videotex Nederland NV , was renamed to Planet Media Group NV . In 1999 the KPN service Het Net became part of the Planet Media Group. In 2005 Planet Media Group was incorporated into KPN Internet The use of the brandname was suspended in 2008 and the services continued under the name KPN Internet in an effort of KPN to reduce the number of brand names. Belgium Independent from the Dutch company, KPN also maintained a Belgian branch of Planet Internet, called Planet Internet Belgi . In early 2003, this company was sold to Scarlet telco Scarlet . Germany KPN also set up a provider service in Germany in 2000. Planet Internet Germany enjoyed little success on the german market and was discontinued as early as fall 2001. External links http www.planet.nl Planet Internet Homepage discontinued http www.kpn.com planetkpn.htm Planet to KPN Internet transition FAQ Category KPN Category Belgacom Group Category Internet service providers of the Netherlands Category Internet service providers of Belgium nl Planet Internet ... more details
Robin Rowland , a Canadian author, journalist and photographer, grew up in Kitimat , British Columbia. His family then moved to Toronto , where he attended York University and later Carleton University . He began as a reporter for the Sudbury Star and later worked for CBC News . While living in London he worked for as a Videotex producer before returning to Canada and rejoining CBC New s teletext experiment Project Iris. He also wrote a number of radio plays for CBC Radio Drama as well as short stories and science fiction. In the mid 1980s he began collaborating with James Dubro writing about organized crime in Canada. After six years with CTV News , in 1994, as he returned to CBC News. Rowland also co wrote the pioneering manual Researching on the Internet with Dave Kinnaman. In 1998, he became the producer of online content for CBC News The National . In 2003, Rowland was named the first photo editor in the history of CBC News. At the same time he earned a multidisciplinary masters degree from York University and Osgoode Hall Law School specializing in the history of war crimes. As a result of his research, Rowland wrote A River Kwai Story, The Sonkrai Tribunal, the story of a war crimes trial for guards in one of the most infamous camps on the during the building of the Burma Railway along the on Khwae Noi River Bibliography A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal The Creative Guide to Research Researching on the Internet co authored with Dave Kinnaman Undercover Cases of the RCMP s Most Secret Operative co authored with James Dubro King of the Mob Rocco Perri and the Women Who Ran His Rackets co authored with James Dubro Morningside radio program drama series King of the Bootleggers starring Bruno Gerussi and Barbara Budd co authored with James Dubro Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rowland, Robin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rowland, Robin Category Canadian journalis ... more details
multiple issues orphan February 2009 COI March 2009 BLPsources January 2011 James Howard also known as Jim Howard b. 1956 in Sacramento, California is a screenwriter, poet, computer game creator, and blogger. Biography James Howard has worked since 1980 as a writer for Hallmark Cards , where he created the multi player game You Guessed It for the CompuServe network and the first known e greetings of the pre Internet era for local cable and videotex systems. Howard s poems have appeared in small journals such as New Letters and The Texas Observer , and in the anthologies From A to Z 200 Contemporary American Poets , Voices From The Interior , and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry . His essays and short prose pieces have been published in Paragraphs and My Bug . He is author of the Hallmark book Little Glimpses of Good 2008 . Howard s screenwriting credits include Big Bad Love 2001 and Dawn Anna 2005 , ref cite news url http www.nytimes.com 2005 01 10 arts television 10heff.html? r 1 title A Barrage of Calamities, All Based on a True Story last Heffernan first Virginia date January 10, 2005 work New York Times accessdate 17 January 2011 ref both co written with his brother, the actor director Arliss Howard . He is author of the blog Spulge Nine . Howard is the father of three children and is married to the writer Penny Krugman. They live in Kansas City. References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Howard, James ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1956 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Howard, James Category 1956 births Category Living people Category People from Sacramento, California Category American bloggers Category American writers Category American poets US poet stub ... more details
Infobox computer Photo Image .jpg 250px Type Personal computer Released 1985 Discontinued Processor Motorola 68k Motorola 68008 Motorola 68008 nowrap 8 MHz Memory 1 Megabyte MByte 16 kB ROM graphics Graphics nowrap 1024 768 1 Color depth bpp Text CEPT Recommendation T CD 06 01 videotex portrait 73 80, character 7 9 Landscape 25 80, character 9 13 Sound Beep Connectivity 2 RS 232 RS 232C , keyboard, external hard drive floppy drive , monitor, printer, nowrap 4 expansion slots , TV OS ABCenix Price 47 125 SEK VAT 5890 USD predecessor ABC 800 I think successor ABC 1600 was a personal computer from Luxor AB Luxor that was introduced in 1985. The model was built around the Motorola 68k Motorola 68008 Motorola 68008 Microprocessor processor , had nowrap 1 megabyte of memory and used the operating system ABCenix, a Unix like system developed from DNIX . ref name http pc museum.com Rune s PC Museum ABC 1600 ref ABC 1600 used monochrome graphics with the display resolution of nowrap 1024 768 and the screen could be turned 90 while in use depending on whether the user desired to work in standing portrait or horizontal landscape format. The hard disk could store 13 MB and the 5.25 inch floppy disk drive stored nowrap 640 kB . See also ABC 80 ABC 800 References references External links http wks.xanthos.se pictures.php?model ABC 1600 Photo ABC 1600 http wks.xanthos.se details.php?model ABC 1600 Details ABC 1600 Category Personal computers it ABC 1600 pt ABC 1600 sv ABC 1600 ... more details
the same time, other organizations were developing videotex systems, similar to teletext except ... the downstream videotex channel to increase to 600 bit s, about twice that used in the European ... Videotex , Industry Canada, BS 14 Issue 1, Provisional , 19 June 1981 NABTS standard DEFAULTSORT Naplps Category Computer graphics Category Teletext Category Videotex Category Canadian inventions ... more details
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