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<\/a>Being online, 1982 style.<\/p><\/div>\n
We’re especially disappointed that there was no celebration of the 30th anniversary; apparently nobody cares any more about such an important milestone in the history of “being on-line”.\u00a0\u00a0We appreciate that many people will consider Viewdata to have been a dead-end technology, but it laid the groundwork for much of what was to come.\u00a0\u00a0Would the UK have become such a major player in the provision of on-line services were it not for the experience already gained by many companies in running consumer-facing online services?\u00a0\u00a0Who knows, but it must have had an impact.<\/p>\n
On viewdata.org.uk, we celebrate all aspects of Viewdata in the UK, and beyond.\u00a0\u00a0Obviously we’re concentrating on it’s heyday of the 1980s, before the World Wide Web took over, however that doesn’t stop us from covering current systems too!<\/p>\n
We have screenshots, brochures, memories and stories, downloads, and even interactive access to demonstrations.\u00a0\u00a0We plan access to systems that are still running, and emulations of past services.<\/p>\n
We’ve got examples from commercial systems (Prestel being the biggest) and from non-commercial and hobbyist systems; we’re not fussy! We would especially like to add information from systems which were not generally publicly accessible, as those are the services most likely to have vanished without trace.<\/p>\n
Contribute<\/h2>\n
Please feel free to contribute anything you have!\u00a0\u00a0If you were an IP on Prestel or elsewhere, and have a copy of your pages from the time, we’re able to republish them in an interactive format.\u00a0\u00a0 Individual screenshots are still welcome, of course, as are brochures and other documents.\u00a0\u00a0Old backup tapes of entire systems would be especially welcome, however we’re also very interested in publishing your memories and experiences of being involved with, or just using, viewdata systems.<\/p>\n
Our main hope is for the discs from, or a backup of, the Prestel computers themselves to surface.\u00a0\u00a0It seems that when they were finally switched off, nothing was officially retained.\u00a0\u00a0Surely somebody took home a disc or tape?<\/p>\n
To write privately, the contact page<\/a> gives our details, or you may wish to contribute to our\u00a0forum<\/a> where you can reminisce in public.<\/p>\n We’re also happy to exchange links with other relevant websites!\u00a0\u00a0Just Contact <\/a>us with the details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s nearly 40 years since the GPO launched Prestel on the unsuspecting public.\u00a0\u00a0Over the fifteen or so years of it’s existence, it became everything that the Internet is today, and spawned an entire industry of competing and complimentary services, plus Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.viewdata.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}