Telidon | The Canadian Encyclopedia¶
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research being done in Canada to find new ways to communicate and process information.
federal Department of COMMUNICATIONS in Ottawa in the mid-1970s, combining aspects of television, the TELEPHONE and the computer to produce a new medium of communication and information processing.1
Canada Hoped this new Tech would give them Power
Nowadays we know this as emailing or texting.
Videotex systems allow the user to receive information from and send information back to a computer located in a different place.1
The 2-way capability enables users to exchange messages and perform such interactive tasks as information retrieval, banking and shopping.1
These are like news stations or radio stations.
Teletext is a one-way system that neither requires nor permits communication from the user back to the central computer. The information to be displayed is simply cycled again and again.1
They can be programmed to run a fixed cycle, or may be connected to keypads or other kinds of input devices that allow the user to select the desired pages or to use various "action pages" that have a wide range of response possibilities.1
The coding scheme, known as the North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (NAPLPS), came to be the North American standard1
Very cool to think about how something like this works and how it was created.
images may be created and manipulated with comparative ease; only a small amount of information is required to specify an image1
This shows that Canada was just as involved as the US
Among them also was BELL CANADA, which hoped to emulate the success of the French Minitel service.1
In Canada, the Canadian Videotex Consultative Committee (CVCC) was established to advise the government on actions to be taken.1