Big Baggy Shorts: Recovering Data From Canada’s Telidon System | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore — https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10927689/figures#figures

I am a big fan of Canada's old #Telidon system that was an advancement to #Videotex services in the early 80s. It was the precursor to #NAPLPS that was used across North America. Here is an uncommon #Commodore 64 software title that decoded Telidon Videotex from the Manitoba Telephone System.

Now that I know @jdd is here, I can say thanks and congratulations for this exhibit I saw last year at InterAccess in Toronto: "Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story." It was informative, very well curated and a lot of fun. There were 1970s TVs as monitors, and devices you could play with. Very good catalogue, too.

https://interaccess.org/exhibition/remember-tomorrow-telidon-story

This was a bit of an ordeal …
I wrote some Python that generated #NAPLPS — a vector graphics format used on some videotex #BBS services in the 1980s-90s. I'm playing it back here on a #C64 NAPLPS terminal.

I know that the graphic isn't amazing, but the amount of work it took just to decipher how coordinates and colours are applied was pretty daunting.

Thanks to @jdd for introducing me to #Telidon

Videotex – NAPLPS Client for the Commodore 64 Archived — http://jammingsignal.com/2018/01/10/videotex-naplps-client-for-the-commodore-64-archived/

Of *course* my friend Leif found #NAPLPS / #Telidon software for the C64 ...

Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story | InterAccess — https://interaccess.org/exhibition/remember-tomorrow-telidon-story

This exhibit opens tomorrow at Inter/Access in Toronto

Registration now open for my talk “Hacking Telidon in the 21st Century” at InterAccess in Toronto, Sept 8, 6 to 7:30 pm

https://interaccess.org/event/2023/hacking-telidon-21st-century

Not long now until the opening of "Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story" at InterAccess in Toronto! Featuring early Canadian videotex art shown on interactive Telidon displays created by yours truly.

... assuming I get them done in time ...

https://interaccess.org/exhibition/remember-tomorrow-telidon-story

Looks like our order for 6 of these went through … they will hopefully all be running our DosBox-based Telidon emulator at a gallery exhibition planned for next year … #telidon #videotex

Never really did a proper #introduction before. Let's see ...

#retrocomputing
#videotex
#telidon
#ScienceFiction
#CatPics
#LibraryTech
#libraries
#archives
#museums
#cycling

... so, nothing too remarkable then ...

Curiouser and curiouser.

Minitel (1979-2012): its past and our future

2012 is the year that Europe shuts down its proto-Internets. First, the BBC announced that teletex was getting the axe and today France is shutting down the Minitel x.25 network. These technologies, both started in the late 1970s, were ahead of their times and, in many ways, may still be.