videotex

[ vid-ee-oh-teks ]

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.

Videotex

/ ˈvɪdɪəʊˌtɛks /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of videotex¹

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