In Italy, the same service was called Videotel[0] and the terminals were sold by the state-owned phone company, Sip. there was a model where the keyboard would

In Italy, the same service was called Videotel[0] and the terminals were sold by the state-owned phone company, Sip. there was a model where the keyboard would slide out from under the CRT screen[1], and another model where the hinged keyboard would fold onto the screen (similar to a laptop keyboard, except in this case it's the keyboard that folds up, not the screen that folds down)[2]. I remember in my area some pubs had these, they were on the tables and you could use them while you were there, it was the first time in my life that I was chatting with someone on the other side of the globe. (I had tried visiting some of the popular BBS on my Amiga to look at cool stuff but had never actually exchanged messages with anyone online). It was cool because you could talk to perfect strangers but sometimes the discussion would go deep. I remember I was so excited about it and my friends were too. I think in the modern Internet we don't really have something like that. [0] (Italian Wikipedia) - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotel https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotel [1] (picture) https://forum.telefonino.net/images_fotodb/pict001494862_7_1239010453.jpg https://forum.telefonino.net/images_fotodb/pict001494862_7_1... [2] (picture) https://i.ebayimg.com/00/z/3UcAAOSwT5RdB2AU/$_59.JPG https://i.ebayimg.com/00/z/3UcAAOSwT5RdB2AU/$_59.JPG