Connecting to ViewData Services (Prestel, Telstar, NXTel) in 2021 - Before The Internet скачать в хорошем качестве

Connecting to ViewData Services (Prestel, Telstar, NXTel) in 2021 - Before The Internet

This is a demonstration of my Tandata TD1816 Viewdata terminal connecting to Telstar (similar to Prestel) and other systems via gateway services including NXTel (ZX Spectrum Next) and Teefax (similar to Ceefax). Viewdata (and Minitel) services were used before the Internet became widely available. Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office Telecommunications's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maximum of 90,000 subscribers in the UK and was eventually sold by BT in 1994. The technology was a forerunner of on-line services today. Instead of a computer, a television set connected to a dedicated terminal was used to receive information from a remote database via a telephone line. The service offered thousands of pages ranging from consumer information to financial data but with limited graphics. Another similar system to Viewdata was Minitel, more common in France. The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes in Brittany, France. The service was rolled out experimentally on 15 July 1980 in Saint-Malo, France, and from autumn 1980 in other areas, and introduced commercially throughout France in 1982 by the PTT (Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones; divided since 1991 between France Télécom and 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 what is now made possible by the World Wide Web. In February 2009, France Télécom indicated the Minitel network still had 10 million monthly connections. France Télécom retired the service on 30 June 2012. For more information about the Telstar Viewdata service, please visit GlassTTY: Web: https://glasstty.com YouTube Channel:    / glasstty   [web browsing for old computers, retro computers web browsing, retro computers web browser, connecting retro computers to the internet, wifi modem, wi-fi modem, retro computing, dialup, dial-up, networking retro computers, retro computers networking, internet history, history of the internet, before the Internet]