videotex

American  

[vid-ee-oh-teks] / ˈvɪd i oʊˌtɛks /

Also videotext,

noun

1. an electronic information transmission and retrieval technology enabling interactive communication, for such purposes as data acquisition and dissemination and electronic banking and shopping, between typically large and diverse computer databases and users of home or office display terminals connected to telephone or cable-television lines, or through use of broadcast television signals.

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Videotex British  

/ ˈvɪdɪəʊˌtɛks /

noun

1. an information system that displays information from a distant computer on a television screen See also Teletext Viewdata

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Etymology

Origin of videotex

First recorded in 1975–80; video + tex(t)

Example Sentences

The technology it used, videotex, was nothing new - Britain already had Ceefax, the U.S.

From Reuters • Jun. 29, 2012

Publishers spent hundreds of millions of dollars shoveling print content into videotex, audiotex, fax, CD-ROM technologies, and such proprietary online services as America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, and Ziff Interchange.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2009

Two-way videotex technology allows viewers to peruse catalogues electronically and place their orders instantly.

From Time Magazine Archive

More than 5.5 million people have Minitel videotex terminals.

From Time Magazine Archive

CompuServe is often called a videotex service because of its emphasis on menus.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd