Pre-WWW Videotex Data Services and Bulletin Board Services

Pre WWW telephone and television information services that allowed a degree of user interaction and data retrieval with modem-based two way communication.

Action:

Action Most Urgent

(Action and reporting within 12 months when discovered)

Assessment Completed:

November 2017

Examples:

Prestel,

Minitel,

VidiTel and Videotex NL,

Alex,

BelTel,

FidoNet

Aggravating Conditions:

Lack of understanding;

structure of information silos;

Lack or loss of documentation;

Uncertainty about intellectual property rights;

Lack of funding or impetus

Practically Extinct: in the presence of Aggravating Conditions.

Critically Endangered: where good practice can be demonstrated.

Pre-WWW ViewData and TeleText Services where no archival agency has captured and retained the signal

Pre WWW television information services broadcast within the TV signal that allowed a degree of search and retrieval of up-to-date information, based on TeleText or ViewData technologies and variants.

Action:

Action Most Urgent

(Action and reporting within 12 months when discovered)

Assessment Completed:

November 2017

Examples:

AerTel,

Electra,

MetroText;

Antiope-based systems

Aggravating Conditions:

Lack of understanding

structure of information silos;

Lack or loss of documentation;

Uncertainty about intellectual property rights

Lack of funding or impetus

Critically Endangered: where good practice can be demonstrated.