Videotext

A lot of it absolutely true -- I thought I was in the "videotext" industry when I started out in tech in the early 80s, so much so that I named my company Living Videotext. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1980 Viditel, the first Dutch public online service based on videotext and run by the PTT, the state mail and telephone company, was opened. ❋ Jak Boumans (2010)

Fidler, who also was part of an early videotext experiment in the '80s called Viewtron, said that the newspaper business was on the verge of a major revolution, what he called a "Media-morphosis." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is interesting to look back at the introduction of videotext. ❋ Jak Boumans (2009)

But what surprised me was the fact that videotext was also a political item. ❋ Jak Boumans (2009)

About ASCII database the politicians had never worried, but when the then state telecom company PTT wanted to introduce videotext, two advisory groups were instituted. ❋ Jak Boumans (2009)

From that point onwards I go chapter by chapter through the developments of various technologies the Netherlands has been through from ASCII to teletext and videotext, e-mail and BBS to CD media. ❋ Jak Boumans (2009)