Tag Archives: 1985

SCOOP was a teletext magazine for teenagers, available at ten high schools in USA, 1985. It was broadcasted on WGBH-TV in Boston using the NABTS/NAPLPS standards, which included the alpha-mosaic features of the French Antiope standard (see page 12).

“The kind of information presented (topical subjects, sports scores, around town information, etc.), the way it was presented (short, tightly edited segments), and the format (contemporary, graphic-heavy, easy to access) were appropriate to a teenage audience.”

More info in Formative Evaluation for Educational Technologies. Post updated in 2024.

Reabracadabra by Eduardo Kac, 1985. Visual poem made for the Brazilian videotex service Videotexto, which was based on Minitel. I wrote about this work for Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology.

A mobile phone version was made in 2003. Post updated in 2024.

Videoplace by Myron Krueger at the University of Connecticut’s Artificial Reality Lab, 1985. Only vaguely related to textmode, but…