Tag Archives: videotex

Prestel capture screens

Minitel Japan

Prestel / Viewdata (1979)

Prestel, 1984. Here you can view the graphics as text.

Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office’s Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979.
Terminal/demonstration at the National Museum of Science & Industry

Eduardo Kac, Tesão, 1985/86 – Videotex (minitel) animated poem.

TV ads for the Viewtron videotex service by Knight-Ridder and AT&T, 1983-1986.

More Viewtron posts

Article by Petter Moshus about videotex (Teledata) in the Norwegian magazine PC Mikrodata.

When François Mitterrand was elected president in France 1981, they revealed it with a Minitel animation slowly drawing this portrait line by line.

Ad for Datavision, the Swedish videotex service. From the magazine VIC rapport, issue 3, 1984.