VideoText

there are surely some in this crowd who remember the excitement over VideoText back in the early 80's. this was a way to mix text and low quality graphics for display on a TV quality crt, combined with two-way telephone linkage. there was even a standard for it (at least in the US) called NAPLPS. this was going to be *the* way we would do everything from getting the weather report to shoppping for groceries. it never became commercially viable in the US. The excitement that drove this was a vision in people's minds of what we now know (of course) as the world wide web. it was an idea ahead of its time. - glenn +=========================================================+ | Glenn F. Roberts, Falls Church, VA | Comments are my own and not the opinion of my employer | groberts(a)mitre.org