videotex
Sign in to savethumb|Videotex example screen showing its graphics capabilities, 1978. As in teletext, predefined, fixed-width graphics characters in multiple colors could be used to create an image. thumb|Minitel was perhaps the most successful videotex service worldwide, using this terminal, .
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- Initial development and technologies
- United Kingdom
- France
- Canada
- Japan
- Standards
- Character set
- Uptake
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Canada
- United States
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Netherlands
- Ireland
- Minitel
- Alex
- Minitel in Brazil
- South Africa
- Comparison to the Internet today
- Definitions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Videotex example screen showing its graphics capabilities, 1978. As in teletext, predefined, fixed-width graphics characters in multiple colors could be used to create an image. thumb|Minitel was perhaps the most successful videotex service worldwide, using this terminal, .
Videotex (or interactive videotex) was one of the earliest implementations of an end-user information system. From the late 1970s to early 2010s, it was used to deliver information (usually pages of text) to a user in computer-like format, typically to be displayed on a television or a dumb terminal.