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2012-06-10

1980s, textart.

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Alighiero e Boetti, Alternando da 1 a 100 e viceversa, 1983

Scanned from Alighiero e Boetti, L’opera ultima. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, 1996.

2012-06-05

1980s, prestel, videotex, viewdata.

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

2012-06-04

1980s, animation, antiope, minitel, poetry, videotex.

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

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

2012-06-03

1980s, advertising, usa, videotex.

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

More Viewtron posts

2012-06-01

1980s, magazine, norway, videotex.

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

2012-05-31

1980s, 1981, animation, antiope, france, minitel, videotex.

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

2012-05-28

1980s, 1984, advertising, c64, magazine, videotex.

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

2012-05-26

1980s, antiope, france, minitel, χχχ.

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3615 Ulla was a Minitel microserver for dating and chatting, part of the so-called pink Minitel. It was one of the most popular Minitel services.

(post updated 2024)

2012-05-25

1980s, animation, prestel, uk, videotex.

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A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens classic, re-made for Prestel by Dr David Annal, RIP. Check it here!

2012-05-22

1980s, usa, videotex.

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Floridatex, a student work by Robertson Adams, 1980s. The first image was made with an AT&T Frame Creation Terminal 100. Unknown source. It is possible that this was never live, but part of the videotex experiments at the University of Florida. (see p.45)

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