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Pre WWW telephone and television information services that allowed a degree of user interaction and data retrieval with modem-based two way communication. |
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Group: Sound & Vision |
Trend: No Change |
Unanimous Decision |
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Added to List: 2017 |
Last update: 2019 |
Previous category: Practically Extinct |
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Imminence of Action Action is recommended within 12 months, detailed assessment is now a priority |
Significance of Loss The loss of tools, data or services within this group would impact on people and sectors around the world. |
Effort to Preserve Loss seems likely: by the time tools or techniques have been developed the material will likely have been lost. |
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Examples Prestel, Minitel, VidiTel and Videotex NL, Alex, BelTel, FidoNet |
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‘Critically Endangered’ in the Presence of Good Practice Offline backup documented and available for recovery; |
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2019 Review This entry was first published in 2017 and there has been no evidence to document any change in the initial classification that such data was practically extinct. There may be examples residing in offline backups of services taken at the time, but these are likely to have deteriorated rapidly. Therefore the Jury calls on anyone with such collections to act quickly to stabilise and recover content. |
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Additional Jury Comments Although there is no structured collection of this material many individuals have archives and a campaign of the nature of 'Missing believed Wiped' might be effective Almost impossible to get this data back (we can hope for some disks to show up one day that have traces on them). From a cultural studies point of view, it's a huge loss. Appeal to the crowd? This is also something that links to community archives and community heritage - early online forums were a place of community development and community creation. |
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