Viewdata

(ˈvjuːˌdeɪtə)

(Computer Science) trademark an interactive form of Videotex that sends information from a distant computer along telephone lines, enabling shopping, booking theatre and airline tickets, and banking transactions to be conducted from the home

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view•da•ta

(ˈvyuˌdeɪ tə, -ˌdæt ə, -ˌdɑ tə)

n.

an interactive videotex service provided over a telephone line or television cable.

[1970–75]

viewdata

A system by which information can be stored at a central point and retrieved by the use of a telephone line linked to word processors. It enables the user to call up thousands of pages of information.

Translations

Viewdata

® [ˈvjuːˌdeɪtə] N → vídeodatos mpl, videodatos mpl (LAm)

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viewdata

[ˈvjuːdeɪtə] n (British) → vidéotex m

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Viewdata®

n → Bildschirmtext m, → Btx m

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" Prestel - the title was an amalgam of 'press telephone' - was the brand name for the Post ce's Viewdata technology, launched in 1979.

When the Mail first launched the digital age - back in 1980! ENDA MULLEN rummages through the Mail's archive to discover a glimpse of the future - from 34 years ago

Prestel - the name was an amalgam of 'press telephone' - was the brand name for the Post Office's Viewdata technology developed during the late 1970s and launched in 1979.

The very first Post and Mail 'news app' The growth of online journalism is there for all to see - but this newspaper was ahead of its time when it went digital more than three decades ago, writes Enda Mullen

Compare, for example, the very different concerns and ideas of Kleinrock (2010), who was working in America in network and computing research and was a key participant in the development of ARPANET, and Feldman (2011), who was working in television engineering and had a background in computer sales and marketing, and was a leader in deploying early teletext systems such as Viewdata. These accounts provide clear evidence of the many different ways in which a single thing--the internet--came into being.

Gaining a past, losing a future: Web 2.0 and internet historicity

What name was given to the viewdata system developed by British Telecom?

QUIZ OF THE DAY

A finales de la decada del setenta, la British Post Office empleo la tecnologia del videotex bajo el nombre de "Viewdata" y "Prestel", llegando a alcanzar los 35 mil suscriptores en 1983 y un volumen de informacion equivalente a 250 mil paginas (Armananzas y Diaz, 1996: 78).

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In that article, Kenneth Edwards, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Alabama, took FUTURIST readers on a tour of Britain's Viewdata system, a scheme whereby information could be transmitted by teletext from a BBC editor's office directly to viewers' televisions at home.

The Future then and now: electronic newspapers: when futurists were first outlining scenarios for electronic news delivery, they didn't foresee the overwhelming demand for interactivity, nor the consequences of competing information sources

(43.) See, e.g., JAMES MARTIN, VIEWDATA AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (1982).

Conceiving open systems

The results coincide excellently with those of the database of Viewdata of Factsage 5.1 [22].

Utilization of Lokpanta oil shale in Portland cement manufacturing in Nigeria: a thermodynamic approach

The British Post Office's Research Laboratory demonstrates "Viewdata," the world's first videotex system, later called Prestel.

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She was told that the seats were on a Unijet flight and Unijet were refusing to honour the tickets, claiming the price had been a mistake on their Viewdata booking system.

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