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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>videotex</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="video-toaster.html" title="video toaster"/><link rel="next" href="virgin.html" title="virgin"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">videotex</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="video-toaster.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="virgin.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="videotex"/><dt xmlns="" id="videotex"><b>videotex</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n. obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An electronic service offering people the privilege of paying to
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read the weather on their television screens instead of having somebody
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read it to them for free while they brush their teeth. The idea bombed
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everywhere it wasn't government-subsidized, because by the time videotex
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was practical the installed base of personal computers could hook up to
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timesharing services and do the things for which videotex might have been
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worthwhile better and cheaper. Videotex planners badly overestimated both
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the appeal of getting information from a computer and the cost of local
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intelligence at the user's end. Like the
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<a href="../G/gorilla-arm.html"><i class="glossterm">gorilla arm</i></a> effect, this has been a cautionary tale to hackers ever
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since. See also <a href="vannevar.html"><i class="glossterm">vannevar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="video-toaster.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="virgin.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">video toaster<65></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>virgin</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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