Subj : bringing back videotex
To   : August Abolins
From : Chicken Head
Date : Wed Nov 13 2019 06:00 pm

  Re: bringing back videotex
  By: August Abolins to All on Fri Nov 08 2019 07:50 pm

 > Hello!
 >
 >
 > This just heard in the FTSC_PUBLIC echo:
 >
 >  From: Deon George, 3:633/509
 >  Date: 11/6/2019 8:38 PM
 >
 > -----Beginning of the citation-----
 >
 > While I actually like the technology and I think its pretty awesome what
 > was achieved back in the day - I'd like to see it progress taking
 > advantage of today's available technologies (while keeping the legacy
 > aspect of it). I also like the fact, that is kinda working alongside
 > today's world - without the invasion (of commerical ads, spam, etc).
 >
 > As an example, I'm bringing back "videotex", but with ANSI, interBBS
 > capable, so that a "network of BBSes" can be logically one large BBS, but
 > still have its own personalisaiton on a part of it.
 >
 > (If you know/knew videotex - it was "Interactive Teletex", "page" based
 > where pages were owned by service providers. I'm enabling BBSes to own a
 > page prefix, so if you connect to any videotex enabled BBS, you could see
 > all pages from that single location. I'm dont know if others will want to
 > use what I'm creating, but I'm having fun reliving it and creating it.)
 >
 > ----- The end of the citation -----
 >
 >
 > Later, George adds:
 >
 >  DG> You can see it in action on my BBS telnet: //alterant.leenooks.net -
 >  DG> you'll notice I'm running Synchronet, and when you get the option
 >  DG> change the shell to Ansitex.
 >
 >
 > Let's check it out!
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >   ../|ug

You know I had a website where the ORIGINAL videotex was being "brought back."  They had old videotapes with the original signals on them and were sampling..and re-sampling the signals to try to extract the original signal.  With some success.

I'm from the era where I loved the idea of videotex but never had a chance to play with it...I'd love to see both the original and something approximating it return.  The old NAPALPS standard is an interesting study...very low bandwidth but vector based, quite similar to SVG.

....I've since lost that website where they were trying to exract the original videotex signals.

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