The PERCEVAL teletext service at RTBF Liège, Belgium, June 1981. This was part of a trial of the French Antiope standard (used for Minitel), but Belgium later chose the more common WST standard. Full video here.
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Teletext pages from Extravision, an Antiope teletext service on KNXT-TV in Los Angeles (owned by CBS). These black & white photos are from the early trials, ca 1981. The full Extravision service began in 1983.
Telidon graphics by John Vaughan for the PBS-station WETA, 1981. He created them with a Norpak Frame Creation Terminal.
Garadinervi: Jean Pierre Yvaral (aka Vasarely), from: L’instabilità come condizione umana, Edizioni d’Arte Il Segno, Macerata, 1981
Colourized ASCII art at NASA using an IBM System/370 in 1981, via. Or… EBCDIC art?
“You didn’t know that Compuserve sold posters of ASCII Art in 1981 but now you do.” / Jason Scott
Half-tone style graphics from Argentina. Taken from the book Words & buildings: the art and practice of architectural graphics by Jock Kinneir, 1981.
Sammy the Sea Serpent for Atari 8-bit, 1981. Excellent text-mode story telling for kids, with minor interaction. Runs both data and audio from the cassette at the same time, according to atarimuseum.
h/t: drx
Forests for the Future. Rolf Harder 1981, via
In November 1981 in UK, Kenneth Baker, the Minister for Information Technology, proclaimed 1982 as “Information Technology Year, IT-82” to support the use of IT, like teletext and viewdata. via