Tag Archives: 1981

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.

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 for the use of IT, like teletext and viewdata. Via