{"id":23872,"date":"2024-02-19T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=23872"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:04:41","slug":"23872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=23872","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"1011\" data-id=\"23874\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23874\" srcset=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits.png 800w, http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits-768x971.png 768w, http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits-158x200.png 158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"532\" height=\"374\" data-id=\"23875\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23875\" srcset=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits.gif 532w, http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dire-straits-200x141.gif 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dire Straits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/outer-space-zoo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"536\" height=\"342\" data-id=\"23876\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/outer-space-zoo.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23876\" srcset=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/outer-space-zoo.gif 536w, http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/outer-space-zoo-200x128.gif 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Outer Space Zoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/z4ymn8\/time-teletext-pre-internet-digital-media\">Time Teletext<\/a> was a US teletext service, 1981-1983. Compared to common British teletext, Time offered smooth vector graphics with the NAPLPS-standard (common in <a href=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?tag=videotex+usa\">American videotex<\/a>). Time used satellite and cabe cable, so it had more pages and a better frame than other teletext. That paved the way for teletext games sucha as Dire Straits and Outer Space Zoo. The games turned out to be more popular than the news, which was not what Time was hoping for with their $25,000,000+ investment&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2017\/04\/in-1982-people-were-streaming-games-on-cable\/\">Source &amp; info<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?s=%22time%20teletext%22\">More Time Teletext<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Teletext was a US teletext service, 1981-1983. Compared to common British teletext, Time offered smooth vector graphics with the NAPLPS-standard (common in American videotex). Time used satellite and cabe cable, so it had more pages and a better frame than other teletext. That paved the way for teletext games sucha as Dire Straits and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1407,52,1728,483,137,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24100,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions\/24100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}