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Well yeah, sometimes some technologies take a greater hold in some countries, and persist long after they have disappeared in other countries. Such as the Minit
by rob74 5y ago
Well yeah, sometimes some technologies take a greater hold in some countries, and persist long after they have disappeared in other countries. Such as the Minitel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel) in France. Or Teletext (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext) in many European countries. But I don't think we should read too much into such technological "relics"...
- Findecanor 5y agoI think Teletext is underrated. I much prefer the Swedish television's news on teletext over their news web site. When there can be only 40×25 characters in a page, each article has to be concise and to the point to be able to fit. Indices are easier to survey. No distracting images or videos. Browsing used to be slow on older TV sets, but more modern sets cache all pages. On well laid out teletext channels, the most convenient way to browse is using the +/- buttons.
- nelgaard 5y agoYes, and no need for a browser, I have small script that outputs Danish teletext to the terminal #!/bin/sh wget --quiet -O - http://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe?request=$1 http://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe?request=$1 |html2text -utf8