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Re: BT asserting patent on weblinks
Author: Nick Sweeney Posted: 6/21/2000; 6:20:07 AM Topic: BT asserting patent on weblinks Msg #: 17974 (In response to 17971) Prev/Next: 17973 / 17975
One of the projects for my GCSE IT exam (taken in 1990, age 16) was to prepare a set of videotex screens: pretty arcane stuff, done on old BBC Micros. And more in common with current Teletext systems, which are indexed rather than hyperlinked. (Though there's a facility called Fastext on modern TVs which comes a little closer to the BT claim: it works by arbitrarily assigning links from each page to four coloured buttons on the handset. Still, it's not close to Tim B-L's invention.)Minitel's still surprising popular in France (around 15 million users) -- in fact, it's probably the main impediment to the expansion of net use. In fact, I'd say that videotex is closer to the French mindset than the Web, because it's indexed and orderly by nature: very Code Napoléon.
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