🔤 Videotext ✨

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teletext, videotext service, electronic text service, screen text, videotext information

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videotext

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DEFINITION

an early interactive information service displaying text and graphics on a television screen or terminal

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Before the internet era, people used videotext services to check daily news headlines and stocks. Subscribers accessed videotext through specialized decoder boxes connected directly to home televisions. The broadcasting company launched a new interactive videotext system to display weather forecasts. Historical research details how early videotext technology paved the way for modern web portals. Libraries installed videotext terminals to offer public access to digital news databases.

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teletext viewdata screen text electronic news information service

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printed newspaper