What does "videotex" mean?

Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.

Videotex

noun

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Noun

1
Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request. uncountable, usually
"A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen."

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"A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen."

Etymology

From video + text.

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information retrieval

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