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Re: BT asserting patent on weblinks

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:6/20/2000; 7:38:25 PM
Topic:BT asserting patent on weblinks
Msg #:17971 (In response to 17964)
Prev/Next:17970 / 17972

Believe it or not I remember Prestel.

It was the leading Videotex system. The French one (Minitel?) came next. I thought we were working on videotex authoring software, this was ThinkTank. I went to NY a lot to demo the software to companies like CBS and Dow Jones who were thinking about doing the same thing as the British and the French. That's why I called my company Living Videotext. (I named it while it was still a big controversy over whether there was a T at the end or not.)

Funny how all this old stuff comes back to haunt.

"jerry"

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