• Do we miss Videotext and siblings?

    From yeti@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 1 07:41:14 2024
    Hackaday
    Ceefax: The Original News On Demand <https://hackaday.com/2024/09/30/ceefax-the-original-news-on-demand/>

    The German TV based sibling's pages were sent in cycles so not an on
    demand service. Some decoders cached seen pages, but waiting was part
    of that experience. I sometimes played with it when I was bored, but I
    would not have missed it if the TVs would have come without it.

    The phone based BTX wasn't used by anyone in my neighbourhood and I did
    not have much fun with it in modem days.

    A "normal BBSe" definitely was more fun.

    Maybe for low bandwidth systems (LoRa?) and small displays, something
    like this could make sense again?

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    I do not bite, I just want to play.

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